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A FULL ACCOUNT GIVEN IN 
THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE 
OF THE FLOWERS OF A 
SOUL'S EXPERIENCE WHILE 
ABSENT FROM THE BODY 
FOR TEN DAYS :::::::: 



SECOND BOOK OF THE MASTER THOUGHT LIBRARY 



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Seattle, Wash: Agne-Kelly Printing Company. MCMV. 



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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 

DEC 14 1905 

Copyright Entry 
CLASS a. XXc. No 

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COPY B. 



COPYRIGHTED 1903. 



INDEX 

Frontispiece. 

Introduction 9 

My Soul's Journey 21 

A Visit to the Temple of the Tulip 26 

A Visit to the Temple of the Easter Lily 36 

A Visit to a Conference of Birds 46 

A Lesson in Eeincarnation Upon the 
Higher and Lower Planes 63 

A Tribute to the Calla Lily 83 

At a Conference of Souls 92 

A Musician's Sorrows and Final Tri- 
umph 95 

Angela's Dream Realized 107 

A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 139 

The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 155 

The Dawn of a New Dispensation and 
Its Triumphs 164 

A Visit to the White Chrysanthemum 
and Aster .. 172 

Difference Between the Soul and Mind_201 



Introduction 



When we understand the meaning of the 
Law of life and being, we find that every 
soul has a different way of interpretation, 
because there are no two souls with the 
same degree of unfoldment. 

Nature makes the same demand of all 
but she gives the freedom of method by 
which to fulfill this demand to each soul's 
own choosing. 

There are as many expressions of power 
as there are souls, hence their pathways are 
in different directions, but all lead to the 
same glory in the final. 

The differences are demonstrated where 
there are a number of children, each show- 
ing different faculties ; some of them must 



1 Introduction. 

be reared under very strict discipline, while 
the others are dealt with in tenderness, and 
thus there will be different gifts demon- 
strated. 

It is the same with the human family at 
large, and therefore all can not become un- 
folded by the same experiences, as there 
are differences in all departments of life, 
hence there are as many ways, tastes and 
degrees of unfoldment as there are souls to 
express them. 

How strange that we do not see this, 
when it is demonstrated every day all 
around us, and how remarkable that so- 
ciety and creeds insist on holding humanity 
in bondage to old ideas and dogmas (in- 
vented ages ago), when we find that there 
are as many channels of thoughts as there 
are differences in expressing them and each 
soul is an individual expressor. 

The more we recognize the power latent 
in man, the more we will see it expressed 
in variety, and there can be no skepticism 
as to our relation to the Universal soul. 

We have been led to believe that we will 



Introduction. 1 1 

stay on this plane until we "go to heaven 
to meet God face to face, ' ' if we believe in 
him, but if we can not believe only but feel 
that we must use reason, then we are told 
that we "will be delivered to darkness in 
some place of eternal torment." 

We are taught to live up to the codes of 
the church and study nothing else, but fol- 
low the advices given by the "holy men" 
chosen by a small number of persons to 
see that all souls go to heaven. How can 
one lead a multitude to glory when each one 
must unfold his own way according to the 
mandates of the law? 

How is it possible that all can unfold 
their higher powers and adhere to one rule 
laid down by them who do not understand 
the meaning of nature's laws themselves! 
How can we deny the possibilities latent in 
the souls when we have not unfolded 
enough to know their limits! These are 
questions which we should answer and we 
should make it clear to ourselves what ob- 
ject the law has with us. 

We have not been taught that we have 



1 2 Introduction. 

the power of God within now, and that it 
must be demonstrated while we are on this 
plane if it shall be possible to express it on 
other planes, but we have been held in fear, 
and ignorance as to the intentions which 
wisdom has with us in the higher expres- 
sions of Godhood in time to come. 

When we commence to discover who we 
really are in a dual sense, there can not be 
anything but conflict between the "old and 
the new" teaching and we will be placed 
in a position of uncertainty until we learn 
from experience ivhich is the truth. 

It can not be that we shall live in ignor- 
ance and weakness on this plane and by 
saying a few prayers go to heaven and live 
in glory with God, as we would not be able 
to live in such glory unless we have un- 
folded to become part of it. 

The power latent in all souls must be 
manifested in every department of life be- 
cause the law of progress demands it, and 
when we meet people in whom it is dormant 
as yet, they look like blossoms plucked and 
cast by the wayside to wither and die, and 



Introduction. 1 3 

it does not matter how much of comfort and 
luxury they have, their souls are yearning 
for rest and peace. 

We have been taught to "pray for pow- 
er/ ? but, when we learn to know ourselves 
we will find that we have it already, and 
instead of praying we should develop and 
express it and we would thereby prove that 
the power of God is within us now. 

The teachings of the church have proven 
to be insufficient in making humanity mor- 
ally strong, and spiritually free, because 
she has forbidden the seeking of light else- 
where than in her codes and this is the rea- 
son why there is darkness and pain in the 
hearts of men and longing and strife eats 
into their lives as rust eats iron. 

We forget that the power of the soul can 
not be measured by our limited judgment, 
as we do not know how small or great the 
experience of the human race will be, be- 
cause the possibilities of man are founts in 
themselves, and an eternity can not exhaust 
them, and when this becomes clear to us, 
we will accept these possibilities in their 



1 4 Introduction. 

fullness and seek to know them better. 

What we do not know we must discover 
and then we will see how little we really do 
know, and how much there is to learn. 

When humanity becomes so practical as 
to investigate, it will be clear that all things 
are possible and that the greatest possibili- 
ties are latent in man. 

When we can cast off the yoke of super- 
stition we will see that every man and 
woman is a revelator. 

Creeds must be laid aside, and man must 
find the beauty and truth in nature accord- 
ing to the law and then it will be seen in all 
its splendor throughout eternity. 

Was there not more to learn than hu- 
manity knows today it would indeed not be 
much, and an eternity would not be needed 
to reveal it> nor would mankind have such 
struggles to understand. 

When humanity realizes that the soul is 
not limited to the body, but it can penetrate 
planes and conditions and receive instruc- 
tions where and when needed because 
it is the master of gravity and locomotion, 



Introduction. 1 5 

and when this is understood, then the race 
will know its power as a higher being. 

Our experiences and missions are dif- 
ferent from one another and that is the 
reason why we must learn our lessons in 
different ways, as the law ignores creeds 
and takes us face to face with the different 
mysteries of life from which we are to have 
the experiences by which others will be- 
come benefited through us, but each one 
must live his own ' ' Karma. ' ' 

The above has been the case with the 
writer of this little book. 

The more I understand the law of life the 
clearer I can see that my mission demands 
all the strange experiences which I have 
had all through my life. 

Being reared by parents with strict ortho- 
dox tendencies and very close adherence to 
the rules of society, I was held in bondage 
in my childhood and forbidden the freedom 
to think and read what I wished, except 
the Bible and such books as were dealing 
with the same subjects, and this created an 
irresistible desire to tear myself away from 



1 6 Introduction. 

my home and go out in the world to find 
the freedom my soul longed for. 

At seven years of age I ran away from 
my home and went out to the woods where I 
remained for three days, and although I 
could not speak plainly I mounted a high 
rock and preached to multitudes of souls 
which I saw in the air before me. 

When the voice told me to go home I did 
so and a reception of two severe whippings 
awaited me which only served to make me 
look for the next opportunity to leave home 
again which finally came and I remained 
away for nine months the second time, and 
the third time I staid away for good. 

My life has been different from others, 
but in the differences are the greatest les- 
sons to learn and the law does not consult 
us as to what methods are to be adopted, 
but it takes us through experiences by 
which we best can learn. 

Since it belongs to our ' ' Karma ' ' to learn 
our lessons well, we must follow the dicta- 
tions of our own souls and not those given 
by certain creeds. 



Introduction. 1 7 

Hearing and reading helps us, but it m 
not sufficient to teach practically as we can 
become taught only by the experiences 
which make us live our lessons. 

The more we become familiar with the 
hidden meanings of life the more we will 
realize that there are high purposes in all 
strange experiences and we will understand 
them. 

My soul travel experience with which this 
little book deals, dates back to Oct. 21st, 
1901. While in the City of Chicago I had 
an accident to my right foot which proved 
to be more serious than first expected, and a 
couple of days before it happened I was 
commanded by the Brothers to leave the 
city but allowed myself to become persuad- 
ed to remain longer, hence, the accident in 
which I saw the penalty for my disobedi- 
ence. 

I was compelled to remain in my rooms 
for four months walking on crutches and 
the thought of my helplessness made me low 
in spirit as my whole life has been one of 
great activity, and as I saw the gloom would 



1 8 Introduction. 

hover over me for some time to come I re- 
solved to concentrate my mind to leave 
the body nntil the first sufferings which 
every minute became unbearable would 
leave me, and I prepared my body bathing 
and dressing it in clean linen before leav- 
ing it. 

Feeling that I would come in contact with 
wonderful things while away from the body 
I concentrated my mind upon the typewrit- 
ing machine and my fingers, in order to es- 
tablish a vibrative connection between the 
soul and the body that I might take down on 
paper what the soul would experience. This 
law, students of the higher life will under- 
stand better than the part of humanity who 
have not studied it. 

As soon as my friends heard of my mis- 
fortune they called and left beautiful flow- 
ers which I arranged in vases while I con- 
centrated my mind to be taken among them 
in order to receive instructions as to their 
relations to the soul. 

I was sitting by the table upon which the 
vases filled with beautiful flowers were 






Introduction. 1 9 

placed. I was singing to them, while 
my mind was in the divine infinitude pray- 
ing to God to reveal things to me which I 
did not know by which to benefit others, and 
as I was thns in supplication I saw myself 
parted, one part of me was sitting in the 
chair while my finer self stood by to my left 
and I clearly recognized myself in both per- 
sons as they were alike with the difference 
that my finer self had much more delicate 
features and form than my physical, and the 
voice was more gentle, when it spoke to me 
saying, "I will leave thee, my body with 
thy sufferings in order to learn great les- 
sons" and at the same time I felt myself 
lifted in the air and floating comfortably 
further and further away from the form 
while it was still sitting in the chair. 

I wish to state that I was not in a 
"trance" nor "controlled" by any other 
soul, but my own soul communicated with 
the body during the whole journey as my 
book will show. 

How my body was dressed, undressed and 
fed on bread, ivater and one pear a day, 



20 Introduction. 

while I was away, I will endeavor to ex- 
plain in the last chapter. 

While sailing in space the sweet flowers 
I arranged before leaving followed me, and 
at the same time I saw them on the table 
where I left them, and they told me that 
there would be fresh flowers in their places 
when they were withered. 

It is with great reluctance that I proceed 
to describe this strange experience, but I 
realize that it happened in order that man- 
kind might benefit by it and therefore my 
timidity must step aside and give the free- 
dom to the soul in giving its experience to 
the world that it might understand that the 
power of living in the dual consciousness is 
latent in all souls upon all planes. 

EXPLANATION. 

The flowers shall be spoken of as persons, 
in order that the reader might understand 
their symbolic meaning more readily. 



My Soul's Journey. 



Leaving my body, to be gone for ten 
days, I commence to sail with great freedom 
and comfort, to be parted from pain, loneli- 
ness and confinement, and as I am lifted 
higher and higher by the light clouds under 
me I still see the beautiful flowers I left 
standing on the table arrayed in their garbs 
of splendor, and the reflections from the 
colors becomes like a silvery brightness and 
their fragrance gives new life to me and 
transfigures everything before me to one 
grand bed of flowers loading the air with 
fragrant life. 






22 My Soul's Journey 

Here is peace and stillness, and I inhale 
its life and clothe myself in its beauty and 
my aspiration becomes stronger than ever 
to become pure, and filled with such 
thoughts, while holding out my hands as I 
float the flowers fall in them, and I can not 
help but press them to my lips in one fervent 
kiss as in their sonl I recognize my own. 

The air becomes purer and more balmy 
the further I go and I see a woman ap- 
proaching surrounded by rays of light and 
I feel impelled to bow my head as she is 
so radiant that I dare not look her in the 
face, she sees my thoughts and asks me to 
rise saying, ' l Rise my child, I will take thee 
from pain into joy and thou wilt know the 
power and meaning of many things. ' ' 

I feel new life come to me as she speaks 
and all loneliness, pain and sorrow is gone 
and I find myself in a state of indescribable 
bliss. 

The woman is very beautiful, of slender 
build, her face shines like the rays in which 
she is shrouded, golden hair, and sparkling 
eyes, robed in gauzy material, with a dia- 



My Soul's Journey. 23 

dem upon her head in which one can read 
the word i ' purity. ' ' 

Upon her right arm she carries a cornu- 
copia shaped like the Calla lily filled with a 
variety of flowers, saying, while she points 
to them, ' ' here I carry the flowers symboliz- 
ing the dual nature of man, and she takes 
a large crimson rose from among the others 
and holding it high she says, "this is the 
symbol of vanity and pride, ' ' next, a white 
rosebud meaning "weakness and depend- 
ency but also the first awakening to con- 
sciousness." 

There is another combination in her corn- 
ucopia and these flowers are the "tulip, 
divine love, and easter lily, devotion. Thus 
I have taught thee the lesson of the dual 
man." 

As her words die away she vanishes and 
finding myself alone I am interrupted by a 
vegetable peddler calling out his wares and 
as my attention is drawn to him I find my- 
self standing on my sore foot, my crutches 
on the floor while I am gazing out through 
the kitchen window into an empty lot filled 



24 My Soul's Journey. 

with old tin cans, etc., and to me it looked 
like a beautiful flower garden a few min- 
utes before. 

I feel no pain, only a stiffness in my foot 
causing me to realize that I have returned 
to my body, but as I concentrate my mind 
to leave it again a change occurs by which 
I find myself floating in the air as before. 

I notice the same angel who had carried 
the cornucopia filled with the flowers sym- 
bolizing the dual man, and appealing to her 
to take me away again, she does so, and I 
live in space comfortably sailing free and 
independent through one grand plane after 
the other with the air filled with song and 
music. 

The songs I hear are sung in honor of 
" Flora' ' the queen of the floral kingdom 
and the heavens are filled with enchantment 
while the great chorus of souls sing as fol- 
lows : ' ' Flora, my sister, my bride forever, 
bring me to thy kingdom and cause me to 
remain there to drink life from thy goblets 
of purity and innocence, thy language is 
beauty in silence and not like the emptiness 



My Soul's Journey. 25 

of man, as thou speakest stronger to the 
soul and therefore the power of the Gods 
is upon thy tongue. ' ' 

w Flora, my queen, take me into thy 
bosom and let me press a kiss of devotion 
upon thy lips as they have the honey of 
the higher life upon them. 7 ' A response 
says, "Gloria, gloria, in excelsus. Amen." 

The further we sail the more dazzling be- 
comes the light on the horizon, and the 
speed with which we have traveled is be- 
coming slower and it looks to me as though 
we are near some destination. 




<A Visit to the "Temple 
of the Tulip. 



We have arrived in some tropical coun- 
try, the name I do not know, but we are told 
that we are to visit the Temple of the Tulip 
to learn a wonderful lesson, because the 
flower like everything in nature represents 
different virtues, and souls become drawn 
to them on that account. 

The temple built on this mountain is 
beautiful in construction being like the tu- 
lips both outside and inside, and a feast of 
special importance is to be held and Hosts 
of souls are to attend. 

Everywhere the colors of tulips are seen 






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Temple of the Tulip. 2? 

and the Temple is decorated with them 
everywhere. 

The Host and Hostess is the male and 
female tulips and they are to be called King 
and Queen and royal honors are to be be- 
stowed upon them. I will cause it to be 
written down thus and it will be readily 
understood by the reader. 

These two flowers symbolize Divine Love 
the highest virtue among all, and the sprays 
extending from their goblets radiate light, 
the symbol of the higher life. 

The assembly which constantly arrives is 
surrounded by the magnetism of the flow- 
ers they attract as affinities, and the min- 
gling of color is a most wonderful spectacle 
to behold. 

Music and songs fill the air and it echoes 
into space as though returning from whence 
it comes. 

A rain of flowers falls upon the temple 
and the smaller tulips fall at the feet of the 
larger like devoted children serving as 
thrones for the guests of honor while other 
flowers are mingling their beauty with the 



28 Temple of the Tulip. 

tulips until the whole composes a picture of 
indescribable grandeur which causes one to 
feel as though one lived in Paradise. 

As the assembly draws nearer the temple 
the heavens become illuminated and one 
Host grander than the other descends and 
enters the temple. 

The Gods and Goddesses of all virtues, 
Song, Music and Art, lead the way and a 
Host, composing representatives of inspira- 
tion, ivisdom, intellect and knowledge, also 
of thoughfulness, simplicity, delicacy, mod- 
esty, virtue, faithfulness, and forgiveness, 
and lastly comes the four Goddesses of the 
twenty-four hours, which also means the 
four seasons and the four quarters of the 
moon shrouded in veils made of their own 
light, and their names are Morning, Noon, 
Evening, and Night. 

The Goddesses of Inspiration, Devotion 
and Intellect enter the temple by themselves 
alone, and all nature is in silence. 

There is an awakening in the lower mat- 
ter as the assembly are taking their seats 



Temple of the Tulip. 29 

upon the daises prepared for them of the 
flowers which they attract as affinities, fill- 
ing the interior of the temple until it be- 
comes resplendent with the light reflecting 
from their robes and diadems and from 
which magnetism in the most delicate col- 
ors emanates while the perfumes from the 
flowers fills the air, giving new life to all 
who inhale them. 

The male tulip King of his race rises and 
in addressing his guests he bids them wel- 
come, speaking as follows: 

"Most Beloved: I, the male power in 
the tulip, offer my loving greetings bidding 
thee welcome to my palace, we are all 
united in one love and one unf oldment. I 
am but a small tulip different in form from 
thee, and yet life of thy life, as thou art life 
of my life, and thus united in one cause we 
live of one power. I symbolize divine love 
in its high expression, and therefore, my 
power is in the winds, and cyclones, in the 
water, as well as the earth. 

1 i I am in the deserts as well as among the 
multitudes because all things, as well as 



30 Temple of the Tulip. 

man, lives of my life and by it everything 
will be lifted to higher planes and express 
their powers as higher consciousness. 

"The divine love feedeth everything be- 
cause it is everywhere. I will cause this 
message to be sent to each plane that all the 
life upon them may understand it in due 
time, I bring joy and gladness to the down- 
trodden, fatherless and forsaken; and I 
wipe the tears from the eyes of those who 
are lonely and in sorrows. 

"I give this love freely because it is my 
mission as there is no selfishness in the love 
Divine I ask no return, and by my power all 
will rise to live and give life to things 
around them because the divine life giveth 
but asketh nothing, and as my life is in 
everything upon every plane, so will it be 
expressed because it is part of me and all 
kingdoms will blend together in the light of 
my love for all enternity. Much peace 
and glory be unto thee. ' ' 

As the King of the Tulips finishes his 
speech he seats himself upon his throne 
made of tulips which rest on the sprays 



Temple of the Tulip. 31 

from their innermost selves, and the female 
power, the Queen of the Tulips, arises, ad- 
dressing her guests as follows : "My love's 
greeting be unto thee, I am the mother and 
queen of the tulips and most beloved by my 
husband the king. I give my life and power 
unto thee with great joy and I carry it unto 
thee in this goblet (holding a golden goblet 
in her hand extending it towards the as- 
sembly) which contains the highest love and 
devotion given to man and all life, and it is 
mingled with the power of innocence and 
wisdom. I will scatter it all over the earth 
and unto the four winds that the most dis- 
tant life might drink and become awakened 
to higher consciousness, ' ' and as she speaks 
she scatters the contents of the goblet into 
the air and the most gorgeous lights are 
seen rising in the sky while a murmur is 
heard as though new life becomes expressed 
as never before, and here is silence, while 
all are kneeling in prayers; and they join 
in, the soft singing which is heard, and as it 
comes closer their power increases, and the 
song sounds like this, 






32 Temple of the Tulip. 

"Most wonderful power thou Angel of love 

We are all filled with thy life and light from above, 

Of thee we will sing, of thee we will pray 

All mankind will smile with contentment and say 

'O, beautiful love at thy feet we will lay.' " 

All are touched as by magic by the won- 
derful words spoken by the mother of the 
tulips, because of so much inward fire 
of love's enthusiasm mingled with great 
tenderness in the motherly eloquence of her 
speech, and every soul has listened in awe 
while the words have fallen like dew-drops 
from her lips, refreshing the memories of 
the great purpose by the wisdom on high. 

I am sitting alone a short distance from 
where this wonderful demonstration has 
been given, and the closer I have observed 
the details the more conscious is the life I 
live at this time, and I fully realize the dif- 
ference between this and the life in the 
body. 

I hear nothing but the most eloquent ex- 
pressions of the beauty and life as it is and 
will become, and I see nothing but illumin- 
ated beings arrayed in garbs woven from 
the vibrations of freedom and unfoldment. 



Temple of the Tulip. 33 

I know of no struggle nor care and I see 
more clearly than before, how subordinate 
the bodies are to the higher souls because 
they have learned to lay them off and take 
them up at will as they are needed. 

Every face shines in the light of angelic 
purity and the harmony between every 
plane, as well as between all things upon 
them, is perfect, because I see it as it will be 
and there is the lesson which I have been 
brought here to learn in order to give it to 
the world when I return. 

I do not know the name of this place, but 
the life upon it is more wonderful than the 
senses are able to comprehend. 

Everything is orderly and so flexible that 
every move is one of masterly grace and 
lends the spirit of naturalness which comes 
only by personal experience. 

The perfection of love, and blending of 
will in unity, makes such harmony that here 
is not one break in the vibrations between 
the celestial planes and the one upon which 
this temple is located and the surrounding 
is one of peace, joy and affinity. 



34 Temple of the Tulip. 

The fountains which send their sprays 
towards the sky are clear as crystal and 
their rainbow colors, mingling in the sun- 
light, surpasses in divine beauty everything 
I have seen in the physical, and its mag- 
netism gives new life to my soul. 

Would that I were ready to remain here 
for good; would that I could describe this 
beauty beyond the mortal gates of life to 
my brethren in their physical forms, that 
they might endeavor more than before to 
become ready to experience it. 

Here is the sweetest singing during 
which the assembly rises to leave the temple 
and ascending into the air they look like 
fairies while hovering over the temple in 
graceful joy-dance and showered with flow- 
ers they disappear. 

My companion speaks to me and instantly 
I am lifted into the air and both of us sail 
away from this mountain deeper into the 
clouds in another direction ; my companion 
sails faster than I do because I feel myself 
too heavy to sail easily, and as that feeling 
comes over me she sends of her magnetism 



Temple of the Tulip. 35 

to me and I become lighter and sail faster. 
The further we go the more devotional 
becomes the atmosphere, and I can almost 
see the clouds smile while telling us by 
their motions that they are at our service, 
and as we go along I notice that my com- 
panion slowly descends, which indicates to 
me that we are at our next destination. 




* 



A Visit to the Temple 
of the Easter Lily. 

This place is also a mountain surrounded 
by palm trees upon which is constructed a 
Temple shaped like an Easter Lily over the 
entrance of which one can read "Devo- 
tion," and wonderful harmony pervades 
everything. 

This locality has higher altitude than 
that of the tulip, and yet the virtue which 
this temple symbolizes is not greater than 
divine love, as that is the highest, accord- 
ing to the masters. 

The power which this flower symbolizes 
is Inspiration, for which aspiration is the 






Temple of the Easter Lily. 37 

foundation while devotion binds the two to- 
gether. 

No one can understand the language of 
this flower unless he has learned to conquer 
self and overcome the desires of the lower 
senses. The center in which this temple is 
built is in the east, symbolic of activity of 
the higher consciousness. 

One breath of this life will make the 
lower life aspire to reach the higher. 

Lilies grow in great profusion here and 
it seems as though this is the palace where 
the Queen and King of the Lilies reside, 
and all the Lily families are represented of 
which the smaller bow at the feet of their 
sovereigns. 

When I see these small flowers delicately 
open their goblets in the sunlight fanned by 
the breezes of the morning and smiling 
while being rocked to and fro on their 
stems, I can see their faces shining with the 
light of God while their silent language of 
beauty and fragrance are like heavenly 
music to every passer by. 

Hosts hover over this mountain en- 



38 Temple of the Easter Lily. 

wrapped in the light of the higher heavens 
which reflects upon their faces from whence 
rays come to me where I am sitting. 

A hush is upon the surroundings as the 
Host commences to descend, indicating that 
they are to attend the Easter feast of love 
and devotion. I can but ask myself if it is 
possible that the races can be in total ig- 
norance of this wonderful life, or if the 
weakness in which they are, as yet, prevents 
them from knowing it! 

Can it be that this is the culmination of 
human struggle! 

Can it be that such wondrous life as this 
is the reward for our sorrows and their in- 
tensities! And is it possible that strug- 
gling mortals are to inherit a kingdom of 
such peace as this! I pray to know if it 
can be granted while I am in the body. A 
voice speaks to me while I am in commun- 
ion with the infinite, saying, "Yes, greater 
than this will be the life of man when he 
reaches his destiny in the final. ' ' 

This wondrous splendor is almost too 
great for a mortal who has not as yet be- 






Temple of the Easter Lily. 39 

come freed from the confinement of the low- 
er matter, but I rejoice at the privilege of 
having seen it, as now I know what grand- 
eur the unseen has in store for those who 
struggle faithfully to reach it. 

I rejoice to know that this is the inherit- 
ance for every one who seeketh and also 
that those who are ignorant at this will 
know, and experience in due time what I 
have seen here. 

I am filled with new life to such an extent 
that the astral matter which serves me as a 
body upon this plane can hardly keep to- 
gether because the power of this pure plane 
is almost too strong for me to be upon it at 
this time. 

As the sun rises higher I see in the dis- 
tance three women figures arrayed in mag- 
nificent robes, and sparkling diadems upon 
their heads coming toward this mountain. 
As they sail in the air their robes form one 
graceful furl after the other, each move- 
ment sending a ray of beautiful light into 
space. 

The names of the women are Inspiration, 






40 Temple of the Easter Lily. 

Love and Purity, and Hosts of souls follow 
them, all of whom carry cornucopias filled 
with different flowers belonging to the lily 
family. 

This temple is differently constructed 
from that of the tulip as it has golden spires 
shining in the sunlight upon which one 
white dove, the symbol of inspiration, and 
one colored in red, the symbol of aspiration, 
are lovingly cooing to each other while their 
little bills meet in fervent kisses. 

While I am watching this sweet com- 
munion of love, quickening vibrations fill 
me and my whole being becomes subdued 
by the harmony it brings. 

The Goddess of Inspiration holds a 
chalice filled with love's wine in her right 
hand, symbolizing the power of the higher 
life, and in the other the morning star, 
while her form is enwrapped in the veil of 
the Celestial heaven, and the Goddess of 
Wisdom follows her carrying the scroll 
upon which is written the destiny of man. 

The Goddess of Freedom is here also, sur- 
rounded by the light of her mission, and 






Temple of the Easter Lily. 41 

upon her head rests the star of her name 
casting its rays in all directions enlighten- 
ing the pathway of mankind, and the Host 
which follows her are attired in "Greek 
yoke togas" and flowing garments which 
makes them look gracefulness personified, 
and wonderful sweetnesses are in their 
greetings. 

The variety of colors emanating from the 
robes and veils of the whole assembly, 
makes a picture of surpassing beauty, and 
their beautiful faces are shining with the 
light of virtue. 

After all are seated upon daises made 
of Lilies, " Flora," the queen of the floral 
kingdom, bows reverently before the Host 
and Hostess, and the whole assembly ad- 
vancing slowly, she kisses the garments of 
the Lilies, who respond by sending forth 
a new supply of life-giving fragrance ; she 
addresses all saying, thou who symbolize 
the power life of devotion which are the 
expressions of .life demonstrated in my 
kingdom, not like that of the human family, 
but we express in silence by our fragrance 



42 Temple of the Easter Lily. 

and beauty by which the language of the 
Angels is spoken. 

Our powers are not known by man in the 
times of the moderns, nor can it become 
known by the activity of the lower senses 
alone, because the spirit understands the 
life of its own, without words. 

Posterity will know us and also recog- 
nize in us the power of the soul exchanged 
on all planes. We are the communicators 
between the souls, and our powers are a 
great part of man, and he will understand 
and demonstrate it." As she finishes her 
speech the assembly rises and the Goddess 
of Inspiration, fanned by the veil of the 
celestial heaven, addresses the hosts as fol- 
lows : ' ' Loves greetings be unto thee, and 
the peace who art the life from on high 
shall permeate thy being until thou become 
like the suns of purity and electrifying life. 
I am with thee as thou art with me and 
our united energies shall bring light and ex- 
pressions of the power of God within, and 
His praise shall be sung by the tongue of 



Temple of the Easter Lily. 43 

As she finishes there is a murmur in 
everything and voices are heard saying, ' ' I 
am in the storms and cyclones, I am in the 
power who makes "elementa" (the female 
power of the elements), ring her bells of 
Universal energy, I am in the seasons, 
times and beings, and it is by my power 
that all things expresses its higher life upon 
all planes and by my power man shall re- 
joice in time to come, take thou this mes- 
sage, oh, Goddess of the Morning, and car- 
ry it to the Goddess of Noon, that she might 
in her own way give it to mankind in the 
right season to uplift all kingdoms to 
higher planes." 

While the speech is in progress the God- 
dess of Devotion takes sprays from her in- 
nermost self and lays them at the feet of the 
assembled, bowing deeply while her guests 
make their exit from the Temple. 

The Goddess of the Morning takes the 
message and, surrounded by her compan- 
ions, the little morning glories, she ascends 
into the air and disappears, and upon her 
arrival she is greeted with love and devo- 



44 Temple of the Easter Lily. 

tion by the Goddess of the Noon, who is her 
sister and most beloved, and in addressing 
her she speaks as follows: "My beloved 
sister, thou beautiful Goddess, I am one 
with thee and our united missions shall help 
and lead matter to its higher destinies. 

By our power the birds fly and sing, and 
by our power the fishes swim, and all things 
will sing in chorus of their freedom. 

After an affectionate parting the God- 
dess of the morning leaves for other planes. 
****** 

God and Goddess symbolize the male and 
female power in all things, expressing their 
higher power and virtues, and when we 
represent them as making speeches we do 
not mean in words, but the vibrations of 
thought which are set into action by the 
color and shape of the flowers are sent to 
the body while I am among them and when 
these vibrations come in contact with the 
magnetism of the body they are expressed 
in words upon the paper as I directed be- 
fore leaving the body. On the planes where 
I now journey words are not needed for ex- 
pressions, as there are nothing but thought 



Temple of the Easter Lily. 45 

and every one communicates by thought 
only. 




cA Visit to a. Conference 
of "Birds. 

The temple is vacated and here is a si- 
lence as though nothing had taken place, 
but I am in wonderment at the wonderful 
lesson I have learned by hearing and see- 
ing all these things. 

My visit among the finer flowers has edu- 
cated me as nothing else can, but it has been 
of such an exalted nature that I can hardly 
understand its full meaning right away, 
and it makes me long to visit the plainer 
and more insignificant flowers in order to 
learn the contrast between the higher and 
lower. 

3 



Conference of Birds. 47 

As I am holding these thoughts I feel 
myself floating in space and I realize that 
my desire to learn a lesson from the smaller 
flowers as they are known to the infinite, 
as I see them on the fields while sailing 
swiftly in company with the Goddess of 
Purity. 

As we pass, the fields covered with a 
variety of wild flowers my attention is most 
drawn to the wild rose, buttercup, daisy, 
lily of the valley, golden rod and the dear 
old blueflag. 

This part of the country is totally iso- 
lated, not a footstep nor a sign of life can 
be found. 

Birds fly to and fro singing sweetly while 
the gentle breezes tell their story of past 
struggles. 

The flowers open their goblets receiving 
the dew of the morning while humming- 
birds and butterflies move in the magnetic 
whirl-dance which fills the air with its beau- 
tiful life. 

I have descended upon a high hill around 
which are mountains surrounded by trees 



48 Conference of Birds. 

filled with sweet birds' nests and valleys 
filled with flowers, when I look around in 
this palace of nature, built without human 
hands, I remember the words of Solomon 
when he said, "Look at the flowers of the 
fields, they neither spin nor work and 
there are none as beautiful as they." 

This simplicity and freedom of nature 
teaches me the lesson that everything must 
have complete freedom to unfold. 

Here is not a human being nor a single 
abode for man, but the birds rule this 
place alone, and their happiness can be ap- 
preciated only when one hears their songs 
in chorus and in soul follows their trills, 
circling their way into the air until it be- 
comes filled with sweet melody ascending 
higher and higher. 

There is life of a different expression in 
those tones and one becomes lifted in soul 
like the birds are by their wings, realizing 
that they have a mission which they faith- 
fully perform. 

As these thoughts fill my mind I fully 
realize the enormity of the offense of killing 



Conference of Birds. 49 

them for money making, or other purposes. 

The love and the innocence which they 
demonstrate make me feel that the earth 
plane would not be as good as it is had it 
not the sweet magnetism which their songs 
attract from the air. 

It seems to me that I can remember this 
place as though I had visited here before 
and while I am trying to refresh my mem- 
ory I am taken back to an incident which 
happened to me while in the City of Pitts- 
burg, Pennsylvania, a few years ago. 

It happened that it became the style for 
women to wear stuffed birds in their hats. 
I have always felt that it is cruel to take 
these innocent little lives, but at this time 
(for some reason which I can not explain) 
I became so fascinated by the style that I 
could not resist the temptation of 
purchasing a large "Paradise Bird." 
I bought it at considerable expense 
and placed it on my hat and the first 
time I wore it I felt very proud when I 
heard the compliments of its beauty, but 
the second time I wore it my conscience 



50 Conference of Birds. 

commenced to trouble me and I awoke as 
from a hypnotic spell, and before I came 
to myself in full realization of what I had 
done I saw a flock of different birds hover 
in the air coming towards me, speaking in 
their own way to my inner self, asking me 
to go with them to a place selected by them 
for a conference between themselves as to 
what measures to adopt for the prevention 
of cruelty to the birds. 

The more I listened to their cackle the 
plainer I understood what it meant, and 
my close attention made me feel that I 
floated away from my body and became 
smaller until I felt that I was as small as 
they are. 

I have always advocated humanitarian 
principles, defending the dumb animal, but 
this time I forgot who I was and followed 
the rest of the violators of this law. 

We came to the place where I am now 
sitting on the hills under the trees filled 
with beautifully constructed birds' nests, 
and I remember the transactions which took 
place at that time and will relate them to 



Conference of Birds. 51 

you in this chapter. 

To me it looked at that time as though 
everything was transacted on a legal basis, 
judge and jury being chosen by the older 
birds, also counsel was chosen from the dif- 
ferent bird families, all being the larger 
birds, while the smaller were listening. 

Here was every kind of bird I have seen 
and not seen before, and some of them were 
ferocious, others sweet and gentle and to 
me the variety reminded me of my own race 
(the human) as they vary in coarseness and 
refinement. 

The vulture, eagle and peacock were 
anxious to be masters over all, but they 
were rejected on account of their brutality 
and the peafowl because of his pride, and 
they argued that pride predominated in 
him and that he could not use his reason 
and common sense. 

The swan was selected judge, and a bird 
from each family as counsel for both sides, 
and the jury was chosen from the turkey 
family, and also from the wild duck, tame 
duck, chicken, goose and quail, also from 



52 Conference of Birds. 

the families of the paradise birds, larks, 
doves, mockingbirds and nightingales. 

Here are different kinds of rocks upon 
which the judge and jury are sitting, and 
also for the counsel other birds as well as 
bird-souls who had come to listen rested 
in the trees around the center where the 
procedings took place. 

Counsel for the prosecution read the 
charge to the court, which was "premedi- 
tated murder and inhuman way of commit- 
ting it." 

Turkey, chicken and goose were the 
prosecutors, while the wild duck and quail 
spoke for themselves. 

The vulture and eagle were asked to de- 
part and they did so with much anger and 
feeling of revenge. 

Such an army of legal talent among birds 
I never heard of before and had I not been 
one of them at that time I would not have 
understood nor been able to learn the les- 
son which was taught me on that occasion. 

Every speaker was eloquent, presenting 
his side convincingly, and when points of 



Conference of Birds. 53 

special importance were touched all birds 
cackled as though they wished to make their 
case stronger, and such cackle I never heard 
before mingled with sorrow as well as an- 
ger. 

After the prosecution had finished their 
argument the dear dove spoke and her voice 
trembled with emotion as she told of the 
disgrace to kill her sisters and place them 
upon a pile of soil to represent peace on 
the graves of those who had hated peace all 
their lives. The lark spoke of the blas- 
phemy upon song and beauty, to kill and 
place her sisters, as well as other relatives, 
such as the mockingbird, nightingale, etc., 
in women's hats, and the paradise bird 
spoke of the crime against refinement, to 
murder animals as well as human beings. 
He demonstrated his feeling by his earnest- 
ness and while he was speaking he moved 
his beautiful feathers in the sunlight and 
every motion he made was one of beauty,, 
which made him the embodiment of bird 
grace while he moved everybody with his 
eloquence. 



54 Conference of Birds 

I was sitting near by and it seemed to 
me that he looked at me more intensely as 
his speech advanced until I felt my guilt so 
that I could not remain silent any longer 
but asked for a chance to say a few words, 
which was granted. 

I confessed my guilt and recommended 
my case to the mercy of the court. The 
swan delivered his charge to the jury, and 
in doing so he recommended the severest 
punishment possible, as he felt that the 
crime was so great that a lenient penalty 
should not be thought of. He said that he 
was disgraced at the way the human fam- 
ily used his fine feathers, trailing his down 
in the dust, "but," says he, "that I can for- 
give sooner than to see how my brethren are 
treated, and therefore, ' ' says he, * ' you must 
sing no more in the treetops of these sinful 
people who are our brothers, having been 
in the same condition as we are now, but 
since their advancement above our plane 
they take advantage of their own, by killing 
them as though they had a right to do so. 

This case is sad, said he, and therefore 



Conference of Birds. 55 

I recommend that we expel the humans 
from enjoying our songs at sunset, and let 
us agree not to fly by the windows of those 
who wish to hear our songs ! ' ' 

The jury went out and remained in de- 
liberation for some time. The paradise 
bird was foreman, speaking for all. After 
deliberating for some time they finally 
came in with the verdict contrary to the 
recommendations of the swan, and the fore- 
man addressed the court as follows : ' ' We 
have agreed not to cease our singing at the 
windows of our human brothers, because if 
we do not sing they will kill us quicker 
than if we do sing, as then they will feel 
that we are no good anyway, and might as 
well be dead as not; we have decided to 
sing our best songs when our murderers 
come around us, as that will appeal to their 
finer feelings and they will be more liable 
to cease persecuting us than otherwise." 

All who had listened to the argument of 
the paradise bird agreed with him and felt 
as he did. 

After all was over the lovely lark com- 



56 Conference of Birds. 

menced to sing while rocking to and fro on 
a wild rosebush and the vibrations of her 
song were heard in the distance and at- 
tracted the attention of a multitude of souls 
who had come to take part in the confer- 
ence and listen to the proceedings. All the 
birds present joined the lark in her song, 
and as they were lifted on their wings in 
the air the mingling of their singing filled it. 

Among these souls there were hosts of 
human souls as well as of animals, and they 
formed themselves into groups and agreed 
to form societies to prevent the cruelties to 
the birds by impressing those who are in 
their bodies as yet to cease their blood- 
thirstiness and become more humane than 
in the past. 

I was asked to enroll my soul identity 
with them and work in the cause in and out 
of the body for the protection of the little 
darlings. 

I heard one soul say, i l there will never be 
peace in the hearts of men until they be- 
come more humane to things beneath them, 
and as for women they will be in sorrow 



Conference of Birds. 57 

and loneliness until they cease to take the 
life of the weak and innocent, the songs of 
the birds are beautiful but they are also 
a woeful warning to those who are guilty. 

The singing of the birds are their pray- 
ers to be left alone and enjoy the freedom 
which is their gift of nature as well as to 
the human race, because they have the right 
to live and unfold as well as everything 
around them. 

When woman lives on a higher plane she 
will not allow anything to suffer on her ac- 
count and the vibrations of death with 
which she is now constantly surrounded will 
then leave her and she will feel more free 
than ever before. 

As long as our Christian brothers only 
sing "Nearer My God to Thee," without 
living it, they will never in truth know God, 
because "him who calleth God, God only, 
but do not do his will, will never know the 
reward given to them who live the life of 
true Christianity. ' ' 

The beautiful trills of the lark, the hum- 
mings of the bees, as they fly to and fro 



58 Conference of Birds. 

among the hummingbirds and butterflies 
have taken my attention during which all 
the souls have been leaving this place with- 
out me seeing it, the conference is ended 
and I find myself alone. 

From the above can be seen that I was 
made to violate the law of humanitarian- 
ism for the time being, in order to become 
able to learn the lesson which I did at that 
time and which I have recalled to my mind 
while I have been sitting here. 

The lesson has been to fully understand 
that the mind dominates everything and 
that it must have undisturbed freedom to 
bring out the power of higher realization 
of the continuance of life on other planes, 
and also to show that we must not take 
life, particularly of that which by instinct 
is rising higher and higher and by the 
demonstrations of its own life's power, it 
is helping others to realize the same. 

The bird is the symbol of aspiration, 
based upon gentleness as nothing can rise 
to its fullest capacity of individuality until 



Conference of Birds. 59 

it has become a conqueror of the low pro- 
pensities on all planes. 

I have related this most remarkable co- 
incident in the way humans are on trial for 
things which they understand to be wrong 
but which they commit anyway, and also to 
show that all things have a portion of con- 
sciousness which it expresses even though 
we do not believe it because it is on a lower 
plane from us, everything sighs and has 
feelings and a portion of knowledge by 
which to make regret felt around it. 

This place has charmed me, and I have 
been in wonderment over the finding of such 
harmony between the marigolds, the sym- 
bol of grief, and the buttercups sym- 
bolizing joy, as though they could 
tell each other how much they love 
one another, while the humming bird 
sips the honey from the flower, which 
gives freely her life and sympathy, this and 
other expressions of the freedom and love 
which mother nature bestows upon all her 
children even to the spider, who weaves his 
web from the magnetism of the moonlight 



60 Conference of Birds. 

as well as the morning dew. I see the little 
glories peep out from their beds of night, 
like little children, saluting all passers by 
with their sweet "good morning." 

The generosity of this isolated temple 
built by nature is greater than I can ex- 
press, and I fully realize the beauty of such 
free life as I am now living free from the 
confinement of the body. 

Wherever I look I find communion be- 
tween planes and souls as well as between 
souls and things, and when man can under- 
stand this communion it will be seen that 
Angels have communion with every king- 
dom in nature, and this demonstrates that 
the kingdom of heaven is within, in all 
things on every plane. 

What I have seen and heard while sitting 
here has formed itself into one magnificent 
combination upon which falls the light of 
past ages, thereby telling that this place has 
been the abode of the masters and sages of 
past dispensations because every leaf and 
the breezes from the winds carries with 
them a silent message of untold wisdom and 



Conference of Birds. 61 

power which the soul recognizes, and one 
can hear a whisper while looking at the 
flowers which grow here in such profusion, 
saying "and God looked at all the things 
He had made and saw that they are good. ' J 

Would that I could stay here for all time, 
in this wonderful quietude and indescrib- 
able peace by which I have been so royally 
entertained while I have learned my lesson, 
I do not know which to prefer, to remain 
(if such could be), or return to the temples 
where I have seen such numbers of Illumi- 
nated Hosts. Here I live on the fragrance 
of the wild flowers among which humming 
birds, butterflies and mocking birds have 
their homes, lending their charms to the 
beauty and fragrance of flowers while na- 
ture sings her love song, carried by the 
winds through the trees by such wonderful 
power that one cannot help but desire to 
remain for all time and rest in nature's 
arms unseen and unknown and be rocked 
into sweet and peaceful slumber, while 
flowers and birds, winds and waters in unity 



62 Conference of Birds. 

sing the songs of triumph over darkness, 
brutality, sorrow and strife. 




<A Lesson in Reincarnation 

Upon the Higher and 
Lower Planes 

Sailing away from this place to another, 
I am told by my companion that I am to 
be taught a wonderful lesson of the law of 
reinbodiment and for that purpose will be 
taken to a place which the modern people 
have never seen nor heard of. 

We sail over fields and valleys hearing 
sweet song and music as we go. 

I have learned a lesson which no one has 
ever taught me before, in which it has been 
fully demonstrated to me that there is no 
place nor distance, except in the limitations 
of the mind of humanity. 

Hovering in space I can see that all coun- 
tries are united as one by law, and I can 



64 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

look over the whole earth as it is held to- 
gether with all other planes by their mag- 
netism. 

There is no distance between country and 
country, as they are so close to my eyes that 
I could speak and my voice be heard by 
them all at the same time. 

Arriving at our next destination I find 
another large mountain totally isolated 
from the presence of mankind on the physi- 
cal plane. 

I can see no houses or modern abodes of 
any kind here, but I see a number of pe- 
culiarly constructed caves far and high on 
the mountains away from the interior of 
the earth and their construction is very ar- 
tistic. I have never felt so isolated before 
nor have I seen nature so free from inter- 
ference of the struggle of man or animal 
and so void of personified activity, I mean 
in the way I am used to see it in my body. 

I never realized what exclusion meant 
until now, here is not a word, sound nor 
whisper of the kind I am used to hear, and 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 65 

it seems to me that even the winds are si- 
lent and the trees motionless to make me 
feel as never before that I am alone. 

As I see the caves I become very attracted 
to them by their appearance and it makes 
me feel that I must try and obtain a glimpse 
of their interior. 

As my desire to investigate is known in 
space, I am taken a small distance away 
and I have a wonderful view of all. The 
caves look to me like unknown palaces 
whose ceilings consist of a fine network 
made so delicate that it looks like spider 
webs and the sun is shining through them 
while the winds are playing through their 
fine weavings and I see souls come and go 
and all look to me like fairies and their 
sweet abodes like fairy lands. 

Great activity of a different nature than 
that which I am used to in my body domi- 
nates the whole mountain and as I watch it 
I see the caves are inhabited but not by 
souls from my present plane of earth, as 
they are far beyond the human development 
of the present day on the physical plane. 



66 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

The people who live in these abodes are 
very delicate, but strong ; they are not large 
in stature but very finely proportioned 
with the most wonderful beauty of face. 

Most of the women are light complex- 
ioned with golden hair, oval features and 
blue eyes, and their every motion is that of 
masterly grace. 

I do not understand their language but 
they speak more by thought than sound, 
and I understand everything they say to 
one another by being in the soul, as they 
do not use the vibrations of sound except 
once in a while. 

They are masters in the manipulation of 
magnetism as they understand how to 
centralize it right under their feet, and 
then select the finest from the bulk which 
they cause to circle around themselves and 
thus weave their bodies when they need to 
change them for other planes. Light is 
emanating from the center of the magnet- 
ism thus attracted in different colorings 
and out of that light they make their finer 
senses. 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 67 

They travel by ascension and descension, 
and when they ascend they have a niagneti- 
cal veil which serves as attraction for them 
to come back. 

This veil they let fall upon the spot from 
where they ascend and it is the outer cover- 
ing which they cannot take with them to 
any other plane. They go where they feel 
like and stay away as long as they desire, 
because they seem to have mastered the law 
of gravity. 

Their devotion is to nature and it does 
not look to me as though they worshiped 
any deity. 

They sit down with their feet a-crossed 
and extend their hands and fingers out in 
space, and after holding them in that posi- 
tion for a while they twine their arms 
around themselves and cause the magnet- 
ism around them to become illumined and 
afterward they have new bodies. 

They weave their robes from vari-colored 
magnetism and when they ascend they 
cause them to dematerialize. 



68 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

They renew their bodies very often and 
their faces look more child-like after each 
renewal, radiant with delicate smiles, 
their teeth are like pearls, lips rosy, and 
their whole beings are like a smile from 
heaven. Their food I do not know anything 
about, as I have not seen them eat like we 
do in our bodies on the earth plane. 

When they stand up all kinds of colors 
and magnetism circle around them from 
which flames like fire emanates. 

Every move by this people indicates that 
they are people of wonderful wisdom, as 
they handle the dew in the morning like 
masters and cause magnetism to produce 
different robes, veils, flowers and other 
wonderful things, and when they hold their 
hands out there comes lights like illumi- 
nated wires to them from heaven, and great 
activity is caused by it. Song and music 
is heard, such as cannot be given on my 
plane of physical existence. 

That these people are masters can be 
seen by the rays which they attract while 
in meditation, the minute they sit down 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 69 

there is new activity all around them and it 
seems as though heaven with its light is 
drawing nigh, and power comes over them 
like whirlwinds, out of which they select the 
magnetism they find suited to bring new 
life to races on the lower planes. 

By seeing this I learn the lesson that it 
is by magnetism we can commune with the 
great whole. 

Here is one cave separate from all the 
others located higher on the mountain and 
it is the home of a master who is the teacher 
of the rest of the inhabitants here, and I 
have seen him among the people on this 
mountain before, his whole being is en- 
wrapped in Illuminous light which sur- 
rounds him wherever he goes, and he is 
shrouded in a veil colored like the rainbow 
holding in his right hand a magnetic veil 
which he moves to and fro, thus sending 
power in all directions. 

I cannot tell what location this is, but 
it does not appear to me as though it be- 
longs to earth, as everything is so different 
from the life in the physical. I see no ani- 



70 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

mals of any kind, and yet I hear the sweet- 
est birds sing, but they are not here and I 
do not know whether it is vibrations or fine 
birds somewhere at a distance. 

This sweet song is much clearer than any- 
thing of this kind I have ever heard while 
in the body and that leads me to believe 
that they are not earthly singers but they 
belong to some higher plane. 

Great Hosts are coming in the air to- 
ward this mountain and the souls all look 
like fairies in their thin robes gracefully 
furling about them as they sail in the sky, 
and their motions are very swift, easy and 
graceful. 

The master I have spoken of above is 
to instruct the people in Eeincarnation and 
its power on the different planes and show 
them the possibilities now as well as in 
time to come. 

The master makes strange looking mo- 
tions with his body while extending his 
hands towards the mountains from whence 
lights are coming attaching themselves to 
his fingers and in a moment a golden rod 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 71 

is placed in his hand and as he moves it to 
and fro in the air every one becomes en- 
wrapped in a cloud of the finest magnetism 
while breathless silence pervades every- 
thing. 

All are seated on the ground and the mas- 
ter commences to speak as follows : ' ' Most 
beloved : 

All life expresses itself according to the 
law, its purpose being the quickening and 
hasty transmission to higher planes, as 
nothing can rise except through matter the 
souls must take bodies and lay them off as 
conveniently as possible in order not to de- 
lay the unfoldment for self and others. The 
races on the earth plane must learn this 
lesson first of all, as they cannot accept 
anything which they cannot see and touch, 
and therefore they must go through the dif- 
ferent experiences which the lower planes 
offer to them before they can rise higher 
and appreciate the reimbodiment and its 
blessings upon the higher planes. 

As here are souls from different planes it 
is for their benefit that this lesson is given 



72 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

as they will go back to work upon them and 
give the unfoldment to souls in lower mat- 
ter. 

Be it known that conception and birth by 
woman as is practiced upon the lower earth 
plane is not the method used upon other 
and higher planes for the purpose of giving 
bodies to souls. 

In higher degrees of unfoldment souls 
need not depend upon the birth of infants 
for bodies through which to demon- 
strate their powers as they can make mat- 
ter serve them as before shown, and higher 
unfolded souls do not at any time allow 
such dependencies to come in their way, be- 
cause matter is subordinate to them at all 
times and on all planes and therefore an 
infant's brain is to the conscious soul in- 
sufficient for its work, and because the 
unconscious soul needs the birth of a child 
in order to find a body for its growth it 
must not be understood that it is of import- 
ance to all. 

In the mating man and animal are alike 
and from that alone it can be seen that both 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 73 

are partly on the same plane, and we also 
see that it is not safe to judge all planes 
from the life of the lower. 

Man can not understand his own possi- 
bilities until he has risen beyond the ex- 
pressions of life upon the lowest. 

The pain and inconveniences connected- 
with births in the human family is on ac- 
count of the dominating animal nature in 
man and his holding on to it by saying 
"that it is natural/' and while it is true 
as far as it can cover it is far more true 
that soul must dominate all matter and help 
it to rise from one plane to the other. 

At all times there are confusions around 
the human female during the time of preg- 
nancy because they have not unfolded to 
the plane where they can rule matter by 
the power of the mind. 

In proportion as the souls become con- 
scious in that proportion they are masters 
over the lower and they need not be de- 
layed in waiting for the growth of a child 
to find suitable matter to work through. 

The method of conception and birth upon 



74 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

the earth plane belongs to that plane alone 
and no other. 

We do not mean that the expression of 
love upon the lower planes are inferior be- 
cause they are not as refined as upon the 
higher, but when humanity rises higher 
there will be far more comfortable avenues 
for material abodes for souls than there is 
now in lower conditions. 

The power of taking and laying off of 
bodies at WILL belongs to all souls but 
they cannot avail themselves of this privi- 
lege until they have learned how to com- 
mand matter. 

All passions will in due time become a 
beautiful blending of virtue, and then man's 
superiority will become known to him. 

All earth planes are as yet very coarse, 
but they will become elevated and their peo- 
ple will then understand the potencies of 
their inner selves. Mankind must see the 
' ' Image of God" vjithin their own being be- 
fore they can realize who they are. 

The ascension and descension which has 
been seen here is the result of the knowledge 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 75 

of how to make matter obey mind at all 
times and under all circumstances, and the 
souls who have been attending this lesson 
have shown their independence by taking 
and leaving their bodies in order to teach 
that lesson to those who have not been 
taught this method before, and to those who 
understand the law, conception and birth 
by woman is only the first step in evolu- 
tion leading to the heights of soul mastery 
when they can truly say "be it" and it will 
be as suggested. 

This place has been chosen by this people 
for the purpose of establishing a battery of 
power for coming generations from which 
to attract energy and because of this chosen 
place the magnetisms will centralize from 
higher spheres and the coming generations 
will understand how to draw it to them 
and build bodies from it. 

There are far higher truths to be given 
in regard to this matter but they cannot 
be understood by humanity at this time, but 
in the new dispensation the children will 
know as they are known. 



76 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

Ascension and descension as done by 
Jesus, our elder brother, the messenger of 
peace and visitor from Venus, shows that 
some bodies are made up of lighter and 
finer matter than the ordinary man, hence 
this convenient means of travel, and when 
man understands to select the magnetism 
needed for the time being there shall not 
be such slow progress as it is now upon the 
earth plane. 

The reason why Jesus let his mantle fall 
when he ascended was to teach humanity 
this lesson, but humanity has seen nothing 
in it except an unexplained miracle. 

In proportion as the lower senses of man 
become trained to accept the unexplained 
possibilities in life it will be clear that mag- 
netism is the power by which all motion is 
made and by it all transportation both on 
the higher and lower planes will take place. 

Thus we have shown that reincarnation, 
its comforts and blessings, are not known 
to the children of earth as yet, but in time 
to come it will be seen that one beautiful 
castle after another will be built by the soul 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 11 

for its temporary abode and when the soul 
is done with its mission it will perhaps be 
built and ready for another soul without the 
atoms falling to pieces in decay which has 
been taught as a law by those who do not 
know. 

It is blessed to know that body building 
will take place in the future with ease and 
comfort without the painful agencies to 
which the human female is subjected, and 
when woman understands the law she will 
not be a victim as she is today and be de- 
layed in her unf oldment by bearing of chil- 
dren of a lower grade, she will not submit 
to the gratifications of the lower propensi- 
ties and under such conditions conceive and 
bear offspring which should not be born at 
such times. 
"Love's greetings be unto thee." 
As his words echo in the sky £ feel the 
vibrations of new life penetrating my being 
and I am rejoiced to hear that a time will 
come when the earth race will become freed 
from the bondage in which it now is and be- 
come happy in the independence. 



78 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

The great lesson is given and the Host 
rises to ascend and as they move the whole 
heaven is illuminated and one veil falls 
after the other as the wearers ascend into 
space, here is silence as though it was a 
day of Sabbath. 

I hear a voice in the air saying, "power, 
light and greater blessings will come to the 
races of earth in time to come than the hu- 
man senses have ever conceived of." 

How will I feel to go back to the body 
where there is such struggle? As I ask 
myself this question I am lifted in the air 
and in company with the angel who has fol- 
lowed me to and from other places I sail 
away, over hills and valleys and I am taught 
that it is magnetism which giveth life and 
it causes all things to demonstrate the pow- 
er latent in them. 

Looking over the fields as we pass we 
can see multitudes of souls who have not 
reached the plane of individuality as yet, 
and among them there is great struggle and 
confusion as they move in every direction 
and seem to have no aim. 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 79 

The animal instincts take human forms 
because there is not enough individuality 
in them to prevent it, and therefore there 
are many human forms intended for abodes 
for higher souls, but being ruled by animal 
passions higher souls are prevented from 
using them. Violent temper, jealousy and 
greediness are examples of the mind of the 
animals ruling human forms. 

It has been taught me that all souls do 
not take infants ' bodies but make their own 
forms and also take the forms of older 
people. 

I have also learned that it is not always 
the souls belonging to the bodies who rule 
them, causing them to move, speak and act, 
but many times there are lower souls 
around the body who take possession of it 
and use it as they please and the reason 
why that can be done is that there is not 
enough of positivity or consciousness. 

It is wonderful to find how the reality 
differs with what we have been taught and 
how much greater the reality is on the high- 



80 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

er planes because the conscious mind regu- 
lates everything there. 

The cave dwellers understand this and 
therefore they live in strict accordance with 
the law as it is lived on the higher planes 
and they have selected these places for the 
purpose of leaving some of the vibrations 
by which posterity will know of the 
higher in order to differentiate between that 
and the lower planes. 

I have been taught stronger than ever 
that we need not lay off the body in order 
to visit higher planes because the soul can 
leave its earthly abode and go to other 
spheres, while it learns its lessons such as 
cannot be taught in the body. Wonderful 
Wisdom and marvelous arrangement is 
the scheme of evolution which takes the soul 
through one struggle after another, until it 
has learned its lessons and gained mastery 
over all things in the vast Universe. 

I am in the chaos of life, and yet I recog- 
nize my home in former bodies, and I re- 
member that it has been my fate to go 
through different kinds of sufferings in 



A Lesson in Reincarnation. 81 

them, as well as in the one I use now on 
the earth plane, in order to learn the les- 
sons by which I have been used to benefit 
humanity in my present body, and yet, I 
know that my mission was delayed until I 
came in contact with my present earth 
form. 

As we leave this place I am lifted to 
higher planes where the beauty is as great 
as the confusion is on the lower planes, and 
I am sailing over mountains where abodes 
of the brothers are located, and I recog- 
nize my own hut where I so often have 
rested my soul while away from the body. 

How well I know these grottoes and 
mountains with their temples and sanctuar- 
ies, here are the oases where I recognize my 
own, and how well I remember their sun- 
rises and sunsets, the wonderful songs of 
the birds, the quietude and the many lessons 
I learned which have been my saviors from 
much suffering in my present form. 

All is to me new as though it had just 
happened, a beautiful memory, illuminated 
by the light of wisdom, here are my 



82 A Lesson in Reincarnation. 

brothers, they come to my rescue when I 
am in tribulation. Beautiful memory, grand 
reality, but I must say no more, as the 
world will not understand me nor accept 
the truth I give by relating these experi- 
ences. 

Glorious rest, beautiful sojourn, in this 
sweet rendezvous of peace, the life here is 
happiness which surpasses anything yet de- 
scribed. 

I am taken into the temple to give an 
account of my travel so far and after I 
have given account of my journey I am in- 
structed to continue and keep the secret 
until the world is ready to receive it, and 
I leave the temple, my home, to continue 
my travel among the hosts. 

The stillness, peace, bird song and faint 
whispers of the tree tops, all bow to my 
"Au revoir," as I sail away. 



<A tribute to the Calla Lily. 

I am leaving the dear old mountains, my 
home in the past forms, where I clearly 
recollect wonderful experiences when in 
contact with the beautiful grottoes so fa- 
miliar to me, and again we are to search 
for new lessons. My companion tells me 
that our next visit will be to the sweet Calla 
Lily, loved and admired by everybody. 

We need not sail far until we are in con- 
tact with a great concourse of souls show- 
ing different degrees of unfoldment as well 
as hosts of celestials who understand the 
relationship between the soul of man and 
the soul of things, and here is singing in 
honor of the Lily, not as much from her ex- 
ternal beauty as more for that which she 
symbolizes. I am told that she is the sym- 
bol of purity, generosity and modesty; 



84 A Tribute to the Calla Lily. 

these are the highest virtues upon which all 
kingdoms rest and also the strongest ex- 
pression of wisdom. 

The hosts of souls who have learned each 
virtue best are most attracted to this Lily 
and she becomes their affinity. 

The Goddess of Wisdom says, "that her 
color of white is the symbol of parity, and 
the yellow rod in the center the symbol of 
generosity and the expressions of life in 
everything living. 

Her large leaves are the symbols of gen- 
erosity of giving in obedience to the law of 
evolution, as it always gives power and 
strength to all things to move onward to- 
wards its destiny of triumph. ,, 

The Lily gives herself like a generous 
mother and by her lastingness she becomes 
company for the Goddesses of the twenty- 
four hours. 

Her sweet friend, the dear blueflag, ad- 
mires her fondly, and one is the symbol of 
the night's struggle, and the other of day, 
meaning mental, spiritual activity, they 
Iblend in wonderful harmony, giving 



A Tribute to the Calla Lily. 85 

strength one to the other. 

The Goddesses of the four seasons have 
their own companions, who are their affini- 
ties. 

The four Goddesses are named Morning, 
Noon, Evening and Night, and they are the 
symbols of the four season of the Moon, 
four corners in the Universe, four pillars 
in the temple, etc., each Goddess is sur- 
rounded by the flowers which symbolize her 
especial work and virtue, and hosts of souls 
follow them wherever they go, and all are 
attired in the most wonderful garbs of il- 
lumination, and the fragrance of flowers 
rises towards heaven like an offering from 
the multitudes, while song and music is 
heard in the sky in honor of the sweet Calla 
Lily, and it sounds to me as follows : 

"Thou modest little Calla, imbued with silent 

strength, 
Thou symbol sweet of patience and endurance, 
Thou teach these noble virtues to every soul serene, 
And by such light our pathways are illumed." 

As the multitudes give their greetings 
to the sweet flowers thus the Goddesses of 
Evening and Night fondly kiss the Calla, 



86 A Tribute to the Calla Lily. 

who lovingly responds by her smiling, pure 
white face and her friend, the old blueflag, 
joins her by giving blending of color to 
their innermost life as recompense for the 
love received. 

The Hosts sail away watched by multi- 
tudes of souls and received by the moon and 
stars, whose lights are resplendent around 
them, but slowly the heaven becomes en- 
wrapped in the veil of night, and lighted 
by the brilliancy of the moon, they sail 
farther and farther until they have disap- 
peared on their way to their destinations. 

The message of life, given by the God- 
dess of Inspiration, they have taken with 
them to be delivered to "all who liveth, 
moveth and have being.' ' 

Night joins the Goddess of the Morning, 
surrounded by the sweet morning-glories 
and lighted by the rising sun, they sail in 
space to meet the host of angels with the 
message. The Goddess of Night receives it 
and hands it to the Goddess of the Morn- 
ing, who, like a sweet mother, tells all 
whom she meets to use the first hours of the 



A Tribute to the Calla Lily. 87 

morning well, as they bring more power 
than all the other hours together, and she 
also says that upon the morning hours de- 
pend the success of the whole day. 

All listen very attentively to the instruc- 
tions and hosts of souls are hovering, learn- 
ing this grand lesson. 

As she finishes her speech she gives her 
parting greeting and sails away, as it is 
time for Noon to appear and do her work, 
because all life is waiting for her, and par- 
ticularly her own companions, the Eoses, 
who are anxious to give her their greetings, 
and as the Morning leaves all the little glor- 
ies who have been nodding and smiling 
sweetly are falling down to wither, but not 
unto death, as they fall asleep only until 
they can greet the Morning again. 

All have been watching with profound in- 
terest and here has been complete silence 
and wonderment as the representatives of 
the different virtues have hovered around 
in the heaven, fully realizing that there is 
soul life in the flowers to attract the souls 
of the human family. 



88 A Tribute to the Calla Lily. 

The instructions are at an end and all 
leave for other planes and again I find my- 
self alone, surrounded with glorious light 
and a peace which no physical sense can un- 
derstand, I have learned the lesson that 
such as the flower is built as well as her 
colors and fragrance, such are souls who 
become attracted to her and in this wise 
we find the kingdom of the soul one with 
the kingdom of the flowers. 

The Goddess of Wisdom speaks as fol- 
lows: "All flowers are the symbols of one 
virtue or another, and we know virtue is the 
result of wisdom, the foundation upon 
which the kingdom of peace rests. ' ' I have 
been taught that every bud and blossom 
thinks in its own way by virtue of the flow- 
ing life in their fibers and also with that in 
man and the souls in the flowers and man 
both understand each others language 
in silence by the life which flows from one 
to the other, there is unity, yes, affinity and 
the expression of love is the result. I find 
that this could not be so unless man is part 
of the blossom and thus knows his own. 



A Tribute to the Calla Lily. 89 

Flowers breathe in their own way, we 
have said, and thus draw to them the same 
life as man and here we see that everything 
in the Universe are parts of one another. 

Suns, moons, stars and flowers, all are in 
motion as dictated by the law of evolution, 
thus contributing their power for the un- 
f oldment of all. 

It is in obedience to wisdom that it is so, 
as only in this way can everything reach 
(step by step) the higher planes of con- 
sciousness." 

The Goddesses of the twenty-four hours, 
four seasons and quarters, of the moon sur- 
rounded by the light of the stars and the 
brilliancy of the shining moon are hovering 
in the sky ready to sail away from this 
mountain and their own light is sent every- 
where as they also symbolize the four cen- 
ters of the Universe ; morning means East, 
noon, South, evening, West, and night, 
North. 

As they leave the Goddess of the Morn- 
ing holds in her right hand a goblet filled 
with the morning dew, the symbol of the in- 



90 A Tribute to the Calla Lily. 

vigorating life to all things, and in the left 
hand the light of the morning star, while 
she is robed in the reflection of the rising 
sun. 

Noon is arrayed in a thin garb woven 
from the magnetism of the midday sun 
holding in her hand a golden rod from 
which emanates the reflection of its light, 
looking like fire in which there is energy to 
be sent to all things. 

The Goddess of the Evening attired in a 
robe woven from the magnetism of the set- 
ting sun, joins the Goddess of Night, robed 
in the brilliancy of the full moon, wrapped 
in the veil of night, and they journey 
together and over them hovers a host en- 
wrapped in the veil of the celestial heaven 
giving to love's evangeline, the message of 
protection to all kingdoms to be delivered 
by her while the weaker species are in slum- 
ber, and other hosts are sounding their 
trumpets while she sails away to give power 
and strength to the sleeping, and one can 
hear a unanimous "Peace, love and power 
be unto all races upon earth and else- 



A Tribute to the Caila Lily. 9 1 

where." 

Here is stillness of the night, not a move, 
whisper nor sound of any kind, but some 
one finally breaks the silence by saying, ' ' It 
is Sabbath, the time in which all mankind 
bow in prayer to wisdom and during which 
the lower senses are receptive to the higher 
power, given from heaven and what there is 
to earth and what is there upon, by which 
all kingdoms shall rise and come carrying 
their sheaves in joy." 

I am truly in the soul as the physical 
senses could not receive this light and' be 
active, nor hear these words and under- 
stand, neither could the body of flesh en- 
dure the power of this wonderful revelation. 

I am in the spirit like John, conscious as 
he was when he like I, saw and heard things 
which could not be fully told to the world 
as it would not be understood. 

I realize how much he felt like a little 
child in unfoldment, hence he saw much 
grander things than these, and yet, can 
there be grander than this? Glorious life 
beyond the physical. 



At a Conference of Souls 

A small distance from this place a con- 
ference of souls is to be held and I am taken 
away in order to be a witness to what is to 
be said and done there. 

The assembly is fast becoming larger, of 
souls desiring to witness the proceedings, 
and among the assembled are souls from 
every plane which I have heard and not 
heard of. 

All are wrapped in the emanations of 
the flowers to which they are attracted from 
the standpoint of power and gift. 

Every moment the concourse is becoming 
greater and the color effect grander as each 
has a color of its own. 

One Host is more illuminated than the 
rest, and from the power coming from them, 
I infer that they are masters and from out 



At a Conference of Souls. 93 

of this Host there is a Master chosen to 
lead the conference, and he descends from 
the air upon the dais specially arranged for 
him. 

The flowers which surround him are the 
tulip, Easter lily, calla lily and pansy. His 
robe is a wonderful creation of gauzy ma- 
terial with a star in his forehead and a staff 
of gold in his hand, while upon his left 
arm rests the Book of Life, and he bows 
deeply to the assembly who are seated in 
order of their power and unfoldment. 

In addressing the congregation he says : 
"My dearly beloved, greetings with much 
power be unto thee:— 

This conference is to be held for the 
benefit of souls who have lately departed 
from their earthly bodies, not for them 
alone, but also for all who have assembled 
upon this mount. 

The power of the soul must give its ex- 
pression to all things everywhere because 
there is a constant interchange of energy, 
and when man understands that it will be 



94 At a Conference of Souls. 

brought to bear stronger upon all condi- 
tions. 

All things conscious and unconscious 
speak to the soul because of it the soul is 
part and they shall blend into one perfected 
endlessness." 

As the Master speaks the soul of a woman 
very lately departed from her body, who 
becomes so attracted to the beauty of the 
flower coloring that she exclaims with joy : 
"Glorious life, generous arrangement, that 
souls who have left the earth form, filled 
with pain and tribulation are considered 
worthy of becoming such holy beings, ' ' and 
she seems as if awakened to new life in 
which she can realize as never in her earth- 
ly form the freedom and power as a soul. 



A Musician s Sorrows and 
Zfinal Triumph. 

My attention is very strongly drawn to 
a group of souls sitting by themselves a 
little nearer the Temple, where the confer- 
ence is held and among them is a young 
boy who turns his whole attention 
to the assembly ; they are as natural as they 
used to be on the earth plane when sitting 
by the fireside conversing with one another 
while in their forms. 

My attention is drawn to this boy on ac- 
count of his lovely and innocent looking 
face, and because he seems more interested 
than the rest of the group. 

A special invitation is given him to speak 
as he is noticed by the great Master, and he 
answers by a deep bow and advances to ad- 



96 A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 

dress the conference, as follows: "I ad- 
vance in all humbleness to give my experi- 
ence while in my earth form. 

In my last form I had to endnre great 
hardships and on account of their severi- 
ties they are very vivid in my memory. 

I did not have the love of a mother nor 
protection of a father in my infancy be- 
cause both passed out of their forms be- 
fore I knew them. 

A good woman took me up and cared for 
me until I could take care of myself, but 
she soon passed away also and I was alone 
and have been a wanderer ever since. 

I was never understood by any one and 
my higher wishes were never realized on 
that account. 

I had a longing to learn music but lacked 
the resources by which to have this longing 
realized. 

My life became a burden on account of 
my failure to become a musician and the 
more I was compelled to do hard work the 
more I prayed that I might be released from 
my body. 



A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 97 

Music was in my mind all the time and I 
prayed that something might come in my 
way to help me to the plane I desired. 

The gloom of my being a poor orphan 
followed me particularly as I knew that my 
highest ambition could never be a reality 
to me. 

One day I was much drawn to the forest, 
and I wandered until I found a lovely spot 
under two trees on whose branches two 
doves were sitting cooing to each other; 
they attracted my attention and I looked up 
to them and as I did so I saw their little 
bills meeting in fervent kisses and I thought 
to myself, how happy you are because you 
have companionship with one another, but 
I have no one, and while I was thus in 
thought I noticed two birds on another 
branch in the same trees and they com- 
menced to sing very sweetly and again I 
looked up to them and I saw them look right 
at me while singing and I felt impelled as 
by a voice of some one around me to look 
down to my left and my eyes fell on a 
beautiful bed of wild violets bowing to and 



98 A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 

fro as though inviting me to pick them, 
which I did, and the minute I took them in 
my hand I felt a strange power penetrate 
my whole being, and as I became very strong 
in the same moment, they spoke to me in 
their own way and I understood them, I 
looked into their faces and they looked into 
mine and thus we were lost in communion 
with one another and they became to me like 
persons and loving companions, I pressed 
them and the more I looked at them the 
more strength I received and when I needed 
advice I looked at them and they directed 
me what to do. 

I was sitting in the midst of cooing doves, 
singing birds, flowers and long grasses, 
rocking in time to the songs; and I held 
my violets to my heart and told them that 
there were no better times for me in the fu- 
ture than I had with them, and as I looked 
into their sweet foliage they told me that I 
should meet my own, and play as my soul 
desired to do in the sweet bye and bye, they 
also told me to be faithful and obey the im- 



A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 99 

pressions which I would receive while hold- 
ing them in my hands. 

With these beautiful flowers speaking to 
my soul thus, I rose and left the forest and 
I was directed to go along the road until I 
found a farmhouse and call there as I was 
needed. I obeyed this impression, walking 
along holding my violets in my hands and 
after I had walked a small distance my 
eyes fell on a little house yonder and I felt 
that it was the place where the violets told 
me to call; when I reached it I found two 
old people living there and the gentleman 
was very old and feeble and soon after he 
passed away. 

I was cordially received by the couple, 
and invited to make my home with them, 
which I did and they needed me. 

It made me happy to be able to serve 
somebody who could not help themselves. 

After but a short time we had to lay the 
gentleman away and his poor wife soon fol- 
lowed him and I was again alone with 
nothing but my lovely violets, which I 
carried with me all the time. 



1 00 A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 

More lonely than ever before I wandered 
away from the old farm house back to the 
forest where I picked my sweet compan- 
ions and sat down under the same trees, but 
this time there was silence, no cooing 
doves, singing birds nor rocking flowers, as 
the midday sun had burned away the grass, 
I looked into the faces of my flowers and 
they spoke to me of peace and love like 
that of a fond mother and I felt my mother 
whom I did not know anything of caress- 
ing me; something asked me to be of 
good cheer as the day of my triumph was 
nigh, nobody whom my eyes could see said 
this to me, but I felt as though there was 
some one by me. 

A spell of weakness came over me because 
my strength had been leaving me for some 
time and I felt sleepy and I remember that 
I kissed my violets and fell asleep. I did 
not know anything until I found myself 
here among those who cared for me and the 
old farmer couple." 

As he finishes he looks upwards and 
three angels hover over his head, they de- 



A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 1 1 

scend and he prepares to leave when he no- 
tices them, but one beckons to him to remain 
and he stands motionless bowing his head 
as though in intense prayer. 

One of these figures is a woman robed in 
pure white, and she advances first to where 
he stands and opens her arms and presses 
him to her heart and the whole assembly 
remains in silent prayer, which is broken 
by her voice saying, "My beloved one, my 
child, I am the servant who gave thee thy 
last earth body. I left thee in thy infancy 
for the purpose of teaching thee lessons, it 
belonged to thy life to be lonely and to be- 
come a wanderer lest thou would lose the 
time in which to become prepared for the 
triumph awaiting thee. I caused thee to 
wander to the forest, and sit down under 
the two trees, I caused the doves to kiss and 
the birds to sing to attract thy attention in 
order to pick the violets in and by which I 
could give thee power and strength and di- 
rect thee to go to the old farmhouse where 
thou were needed to help the old couple 
as long as they remained in their forms. 



1 02 A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 

By serving others, and by self-sacrifices 
only can the latent powers be brought forth 
and as the power of music is latent in thee 
thou must go the pathway which thou hast 
just finished and no other. 

Meekness is the road to greatness and the 
law of life will take each one through the 
experiences needed for the unfoldment of 
the power which is hidden within. Thy 
longing will now be realized and thou wilt 
play on the harp of peace and joy and 
through thy music other souls will become 
awakened to the realization of their great- 
ness. 

The reason why thou must take the body 
just laid off was to have the last experiences 
preparatory to thy final mission. Peace be 
with t~hee." 

As she finishes her sentence she takes a 
heart of violets which she has hidden under 
her veil in which her neck and shoulders is 
enwrapped and she kisses it and lays it at 
his feet while she reverently bows to him, 
leaving room for the other two who have 
been standing by, listening to what has been 



A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 1 03 

said, with deep emotion he kneels while re- 
ceiving it, and meanwhile the Goddess of 
music, robed in a gauzy material of deli- 
cate violet color, and she carries a golden 
harp upon her arm smilingly advances 
while she beckons him to rise, and 
handing him the harp enveloped in 
illuminations, she addresses him, saying, 
"Beloved, thy prayers are heard and thy 
hope realized, this is the reward for tears, 
tribuations and loneliness, thou wilt play as 
the angels teach thee and hence the vibra- 
tions from thy harp shall reach the soul yet 
in confinement and when thou art sent 
thither the power of sound shall mingle in 
unity with silence and in its own way it 
shall commune with the sleeping until they 
awaken by the voice of their higher selves. 

The smallest shall be the greatest, and 
the wanderers upon the earth plane shall 
find abodes prepared for them in the great 
bosom of eternal consciousness. Peace be 
with thee, we will meet hence." 

The Goddess of Freedom holding an il- 
luminated staff with a shining star aloft, 



1 04 A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 

speaks to him next, saying, "Him whom 
the truth makes free is truly free, and he 
has the key which opens the doors to ail 
mysteries which shall be solved by those 
who seek understanding. 

Thou, pilgrim from earth, be free from 
all bondage and limitations and this free- 
dom gives thee access to the illuminated 
temple of God as thy heritage, and by thy 
power of music thou shalt proclaim life's 
triumphs. 

Much glory will follow in thy pathways, 
fare thee well. ,, 

As her words die away in the air he com- 
mences to play and there is magic in every 
vibration as the stillness which has pre- 
vailed is broken and there is great won- 
derment at the beauty of the procedings. 
The three angels accompanied by the young 
musician ascend and disappear in the air 
and the most wonderful music echoes back 
as they become invisible. 

Great activity follows and here are souls 
who are invited to speak and some of them 
desire to ask questions, which is granted. 



A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 1 05 

One soul asks why the young musician 
was allowed to pass away when he was so 
young and could have done so much good 
to others by his gifts? Answer, "He had 
to learn his lesson that way and as there 
was but a certain experience which he must 
have before he could commence his real 
mission he had to have an earthbody to 
learn it in, and because the time was near 
for him to work on the higher planes he 
could not do his work in the body he had, 
as it was too coarse for him to work 
through, because the soul was too far ad- 
vanced for the lower earth plane.' ' 

Another soul asked who the mother of 
the musician was! Answer, "She is a 
higher soul who was prevented from fulfill- 
ing her mission in her next last earthbody 
that mission being to give body to a soul 
which must have an earth form for a short 
time in order to complete preparations for 
his mission.' ' 

Another soul asked why he ascended in 
company with the three angels! Answer, 
"Because he was now ready to commence 



1 06 A Musician's Sorrows and Final Triumph. 

his mission proper and they were to guide 
him to the plane where his work is to be 
done." Another soul asked if there was 
a soul in the violets so conscious that she 
could communicate the will of the mother 
to him, or if his own soul had made his 
physical senses so sensitive that they could 
respond? "Yes, said the master, the body 
had been built and rebuilt while the soul 
used it until it became so fine that it re- 
sponded to every vibration which the soul 
of his mother caused to bear upon it." 




Angela's Dream Realized. 

Spellbound interest has been manifested 
in the proceedings during which the young 
musician had been recognized and so won- 
derfully honored, and the whole assemblage 
remain in silence with bowed heads while 
he and his glorious companions, take their 
departure, ascending into the air escorted 
by most beautiful music, and as they disap- 
pear, all nature seem in thoughtful still- 
ness. 

As activity makes itself manifest again 
among the assembled, the attention becomes 
centered upon one soul, that of a woman, 
whose face shines of the light surrounding 
it, her robes are thin like webs, colored like 
the tints of the rainbow, and meekness is 



108 Angela's Dream Realized. 

demonstrated in her every move. The 
Master upon the dais notices her and holds 
his hand out towards her, inviting her to 
speak to the assemblage, and in response 
she bows her head lowly and commences 
her story, as follows: 

"Most Glorious Master and Companion 
Souls : I am here among thee, having late- 
ly left the last of my earth-bodies, I have 
had three in succession, and without inter- 
mission and my mission I have just fin- 
ished in the last body. Pride and folly pre- 
vented me from reaching the object of my 
coming to earth in the first of the three 
bodies which I last had, and if thou 
wilt bear with me I will relate my experi- 
ence as it is vivid to my soul from each 
body. 

In the first of my earth-bodies of the suc- 
cessive three I came in contact with strong- 
er masculine matter than that of feminine, 
because the confusion around the earth 
plane is very great. I became attracted to 
a woman of great strength and character, 
and I could not leave her, as she held me by 



Ansela's Dream Realized. 109 

the power of her mind, her companion, the 
one who became my father, was inferior to 
her mentally, and here two forces , the 
stronger and the weaker, were in constant 
combat. 

' ' I was born, grew up and became a man 
(only as a body), and I tried to express my 
fineness as a feminine soul, but by the con- 
fusion which constantly surrounded my 
parents there was friction which prevented 
me from reaching the point of expression I 
desired and for which I had become at- 
tracted to that body. 

' ' My parents were well provided with all 
things of earth which make comfort to the 
body, but their aspirations were not higher 
than to associate with the wealthy who had 
a high standing in society. 

"My people gave me a good education 
and were anxious for my welfare, and they 
finally picked out a woman for me as com- 
panion who did not understand me nor my 
object on earth. I had chosen the calling as 
a writer, but I could never give full expres- 
sion in my writings because I was placed 



1 1 Angela's Dream Realized. 

in the wrong position and had in my home 
surroundings opposition all the time. I 
had two children in my marriage, one boy 
and one girl, and the girl was much like my- 
self, while the boy was like his mother, 
wilful and haughty, and desired nothing 
higher than to be among society, honored 
and flattered. 

' ' The girl tried to devote herself to some 
higher mission, but like myself, the confu- 
sion was too great around her and she final- 
ly passed out of her body disappointed, be- 
cause she could not adopt that which her 
soul dictated to her. I left my body at a 
young age, because I felt that in it I could 
not realize the purpose for which I had 
taken it. 

"I became immediately attracted to an- 
other woman as soon as I had left my form 
and she was also of strong mental activity. 
Her companion was more of affinity to her, 
and when she conceived I had the power of 
drawing to her the stronger feminine ele- 
ment and I took the body of a woman from 
it, as my mission upon earth was to give 

7 



Angela's Dream Realized. 1 1 1 

birth to a child which should be body for a 
special soul from a higher plane, I was seek- 
ing such a body, and this time I finally had 
this desire realized. 

"This time, like the previous, my people 
were endowed with wealth, and I was raised 
in pomp and luxury and petted so that in 
my girlhood I became a proud weakling, 
who had no higher desire than to be known 
as one who possessed more knowledge than 
the average. 

"My pride centralized around the point 
of understanding and I had more company 
among books than among people, for which 
I was often censured by my parents. My 
people were great entertainers and often 
gave balls and dinners with great display, 
and I finally became very tired of it and 
ran away from home into the woods, taking 
some interesting book along, reading it 
often a whole day, during which my people 
did not know where I was. At one of our 
receptions, father invited a family he used 
to know in his boyhood who had one son, a 
fine looking young man who had a position 



1 1 2 Angela's Dream Realized. 

as a clerk, because his parents were poor, 
and he came with them. 

"He looked very humble, and yet there 
was something dignified about his appear- 
ance. I saw that he became attracted to me 
and I felt that I was attracted to him, but 
his position was too humble for me, both in 
my own estimation and that of my parents ; 
but, the more I noticed him the more he be- 
came attracted to me, and I felt that I loved 
him and I knew that he loved me. I could 
not become relieved from him in my mind. 

"My home became empty to me and I 
sought solitude more than ever, and every 
opportunity I had I went by myself, in or- 
der to be left alone to my thoughts. My 
people noticed that a change had come upon 
me and they became alarmed, as they said, 
that they noticed a sadness in my face which 
they had not seen before. Both my friends 
and my parents laid the blame for this on 
the young man. My people did everything 
they could to prevent me from meeting my 
young friend again, and he knew of this, 
and, besides, he felt that I was on a much 



Angela's Dream Realized. I I 3 

higher plane than himself materially, so he 
did not encourage our acquaintance, but 
the more I thought of him the more I felt 
that he was the one by whom my mission 
was to become fulfilled, and I tried to make 
him feel that I loved him, but he made no 
overtures towards a closer understanding, 
which distressed me more and more. 

"I commenced to feel that my home was 
not my home, that I did not have any home 
on earth, and that I came to the earth plane 
to be a wanderer for the purpose of helping 
the race in the end to its higher under- 
standing, and I commenced to long to leave 
my form. j 

"One day my father came home very 
much elated, and as soon as he came to the 
doorsteps he wished to see me and called 
me to meet him. As soon as he saw my 
face he exclaimed with great joy: 'Have 
good news for you, my chilld; all of our 
troubles, as well as yours, are now past. 
The young pauper is dead. He passed away 
at sunset last night, and I am so happy be- 
cause I know that our darling girl will be- 



1 1 4 Angela's Dream Realized. 

come her real self again and forget all.' 
This was a great shock to me, and from 
that time my health commenced to fail and 
I became weaker and weaker until one day 
I went by myself and sat down under a tree 
when my strength entirely forsook me and 
I found myself out of my form. Owing to 
the great confusion I had been in two forms 
without fulfilling the mission for which I 
took them. 

"As soon as I found myself out of my 
second form I desired another and better 
one at once. I knew that it was the un- 
alterable mandate of the law that I fill the 
mission for which I was in soul activity, 
and as I had failed so far I was anxious to 
try again as quick as I could. I came by 
attraction to hover over a village in the 
country somewhere, and I became attracted 
to a middle-aged farmer woman who had a 
young daughter, seemingly of the age of 
twelve, who had been sick for a long time 
until the soul could not remain in the body 
any longer. I floated aimlessly while this 
circumstance became known to me, and I 



Angela's Dream Realized. 1 1 5 

remembered what a master told me before I 
appeared on the earth plane, when he said 
that I should have much tribulation and 
disappointment in different bodies for the 
purpose of learning the sorrows which the 
earth people have before they reach their 
higher consciousness. When I saw the strife 
which this woman was going through with 
this child his words came back to me. 
There were other souls attracted to this 
child, and myself, as well as they, tried to 
hold the soul in its body until it became 
strong enough to take care of itself, but it 
could not remain, and when I saw this I re- 
solved to attach myself to that body, as it 
was fine and strong in itself but for the con- 
fusion which surrounded it. 

' ' As soon as I had attached myself to the 
body of this girl, after the soul left it, it 
commenced to be strong and happy, and 
the mother wondered what had happened to 
it, as it acted so much more lively and buoy- 
ant than she was used to see it do, and she 
was very happy indeed, until she com- 
menced to complain of it being so different 



1 1 6 Angela's Dream Realized. 

from what it used to be. She said: 'You 
are more lively than I ever saw you, and 
also stronger, and, most of all, more men- 
tally active than you ever were. How this 
sickness has changed you.' 

"I tried to explain that I remembered 
how that soul left its body, and I taking it 
since no other soul could use it ; but I could 
not, as she only would listen to the teach- 
ings of the grace of God, saying, 'That 
whatever was was for the best. ' 

"Soon I was strong enough to help my 
parents on the field, to sow and harvest, 
and we had large crops, and the year before 
leaving my home we had a very large har- 
vest, and my people resolved to have the 
largest harvest party they ever had, and 
to invite old and new friends from far and 
near and have a great and happy time. 

' ' My people invited a family which I had 
never seen before who had one son, the only 
child. And when all had come we had 
dancing on a big lawn, but this young man 
did not take part in the dancing, nor did I, 
but he followed me constantly and looked 



Angela's Dream Realized. 1 1 7 

at me very closely, taking particular notice 
of all my movements, and I was attracted 
to him from the openness of his face and 
manliness and dignity in manners. 

"He did not pay the slightest attention 
to the other girls, for which I felt mnch em- 
barrassed, and I asked him to dance with 
them, bnt he answered that he had not come 
to dance, bnt for something he did not know. 

"We went for a stroll through the fields, 
and he told me then that he had seen me be- 
fore and remembered me somewhere else, 
and as I listened to him I felt the same way 
that I had met him elsewhere, and when we 
pnt our minds together in recollection we 
found that we had met and loved in our 
last bodies, and we resolved to renew the 
acquaintance and compare our past experi- 
ences, and as we talked these things over 
and went deeper into the past both of us 
felt that we had met again, as we devotedly 
loved each other, but we were prevented by 
our parents to make it known to anyone 
else. I felt that I had met my old love 
and as he had the same feeling, we agreed 



1 1 8 Angela's Dream Realized. 

to become united in marriage, and when 
we returned to our friends, who were danc- 
ing and enjoying themselves, we told them 
what we had discovered, and they only 
laughed at what we said and we resolved to 
keep our secret to ourselves. 

"My desire always was to give birth to 
a child as the Master told me was my mis- 
sion, and I felt that this young man was 
chosen by God to give it to me. Both of 
us knew that our parents would oppose us, 
as we both were young in age and had noth- 
ing of the world's goods for our support; 
but we felt that the great law of destiny 
had decreed that we should do something 
great for the upliftment of humanity, and 
we made up our minds to be married at any 
cost, no matter what the consequences 
would be. 

"We recognized great souls in one an- 
other and we were willing to be guided by 
their directions and let the world say what 
it pleased. 

"When our parents discovered that our 
intentions of becoming united in marriage 



Angela's Dream Realized. 1 1 9 

could not be changed, they demanded that 
we leave our homes for all time because of 
our disobedience to them in this matter. 
We left our homes never to return, and we 
agreed that the Angels should witness our 
marriage and that none else should have 
anything to do with it, and we walked to a 
grove and sat down there among the wild 
forget-me-nots and dandelions, and after 
an earnest prayer to God for guidance 
through our own souls we joined hands and 
promised troth to one the other, and as we 
did so we heard sweet singing in the air, 
and wonderful music coming closer and 
closer to us, and we both saw light sur- 
round the whole place where we were sit- 
ting while the ceremony took place. We 
knew that our marriage was a soul mar- 
riage and too sacred for any mortal to take 
part in, and we saw now that we were guid- 
ed aright. 

"We were gloriously happy because we 
had followed the dictations of our own 
souls, and we were ready to meet anything 
which was to come in our way, and realizing 



120 Angela's Dream Realized. 

that our honey-moon would be short, we pre- 
pared to part for a while and both earn a 
livelihood for ourselves. We agreed always 
to recognize each other's presence instead 
of absence, and we would not feel lonely 
while parted. 

" Before parting we went to the grove 
where we had joined hands in marriage 
and both of us prayed in tears of mingled 
joy and sorrow while in each other's arms 
that the Angels would protect us and bring 
us together again, and thus we placed one 
the other in the protective keeping of God. 
Lotus gathered some of the wild forget-me- 
nots and bound them into a bouquet, kissed 
it and gave it to me as a memento from our 
marriage, and as the hour arrived for his 
departure we were in each other's arms, 
and he held me closer to his heart 
than ever before while he kissed 
the pressed forget-me-nots which I 
carried in my bosom nearest my heart 
since the moment they were given to me, 
and we agreed that they should be the me- 
dium of communication between us. 



Angela's Dream Realized. 121 

We finally had to part, and as we held 
one another to each others hearts in gen- 
tle embrace, my beloved whispered, while 
he pressed a fervent kiss upon my lips: 
'Au revoir, my true love; peace shall be 
with thee and we shall be united again and 
live the higher life forever.' He tore him- 
self away from me quickly and disappeared 
among the trees and I saw him no more. I 
stood as dazed for a moment, as I could 
not realize that I was left alone without a 
home, mother, and most of all, the one my 
heart held so sacred. I waved my hands in 
the direction where he had gone a moment 
before as though I saw him, but I did not 
see him ; he was gone. I resolved to go out 
myself and seek employment and help my 
loving Lotus to earn enough for us to be 
together again soon, and I obtained work, 
but upon discovery that I had been chosen 
to be a mother I was anxious to get as gen- 
tle work as possible that I might not bring 
too coarse vibrations to my body by which 
to affect the child in my womb. I tried my 
best to obtain easy work, but I could not 



122 Angela's Dream Realized. 

find it, so I accepted a position to take care 
of the cattle on a large range, and although 
it was very hard I managed to keep it until 
a certain time when my condition became 
such that I could not hold it any longer, be- 
cause the time came closer and closer to- 
wards the birth of my child. I had not 
heard from Lotus all this time, and could 
not understand, but I felt sure that he had 
not forsaken me, as I always felt his pres- 
ence when I kissed the flowers he gave me, 
and as he was a greater soul than the aver- 
age men demonstrate I knew that there was 
reason for his silence. 

"I had no place to go where my child 
should be born, so I went back to the sacred 
place where my marriage took place, and 
where we had heard Angels sing at the time 
and seen the wonderful light, and I felt the 
impulse to build a grotto for my home dur- 
ing this advent, and I supplied it with all 
the comforts which the woods could pro- 
duce. I gathered enough fruit, berries and 
water to last me, and I made clothes from 
material bought from my earnings for the 



Angela's Dream Realized. 123 

sweet stranger who soon should knock on 
the portals of my grotto. I waited for 
Lotus to come, but heard nothing, and 
knowing that something had happened I re- 
conciled myself to whatever was to befall 
me. My child was born in loneliness in the 
grotto and the angels visited me, but I did 
not hear or see my Lotus, and I remem- 
bered that I as well as my parents in my 
past form rejected him because of his hum- 
ble calling, and I knew that I was only suf- 
fering justice in this body for what I had 
sown in my last. 

"I consulted my forget-me-nots, and I 
could not feel Lotus there as distinct as I 
used to, and it dawned upon me that some- 
thing had happened to him, as the flowers 
told me so, and they also told me that all 
would be well, to be of good cheer. I had 
felt him with me as he said he would be, but 
I longed to hear from him by letter or oth- 
erwise, but I did not. 

"My child was born, the image of its 
father, and it was a wonderful child from 
the moment it saw light on this plane, and I 



124 Angela's Dream Realized. 

realized that it was born for a great and 
wonderful purpose, and I thanked God that 
I was chosen to give body to such a wise 
soul. 

"Each time I could call forth a sweet 
smile from my new companion it was the 
sweet and pure face of my beloved husband 
that shone forth in this wonderful child, 
and I thanked God for the gift and was not 
lonely because the dear father could not but 
be true to principles whatever might hap- 
pen. 

"I was in meditation one day with my 
sweet child, the little girl which the Angels 
who surrounded my Grotto at its 
birth gave the name of Angelotia 
which means the angel messenger of the 
higher life. I took the flowers which Lotus, 
my beloved, had given me at the time of our 
marriage as the only dowry he had, and I 
looked at them and kissed them, and they 
seemed to give me a fear instead of joy, 
and yet they told me that he was with me 
and that all was well, that I must thus learn 
my lesson and atone for my pride in my last 



Angela's Dream Realized. 125 

body. I had given Lotus in God 's keeping, 
and I felt that all was well. 

' ' I reared my little Angelotia as well as I 
conld and tanght her the principles of the 
higher life, bnt I f onnd that she knew more 
of them already than I conld tell her, and I 
saw that the tastes of hers was different 
from the tastes and ideas of the average 
earth beings, and this was demonstrated to 
me more and more for every day nntil I 
became convinced that she did not belong 
to earth, bnt had come from another planet. 
I did not have as much hardship to provide 
food for both of ns as I thought I would, 
as I found that everything with which I 
came in contact provided food for myself 
and my child. In my last body I cared for 
no other flowers except those who gave 
great display, such as the large crimson 
rose and the like of it, all the smaller had 
no attraction for me, and I have found that 
in this body which I have just laid off I 
came in contact with none but the wild and 
smaller flowers, and I came to love them as 



126 Angela's Dream Realized. 

they have given me so much comfort in my 
loneliness. 

' i Dandelions and the wild forget-me-nots 
have kept me company, and they have been 
healing and feeding to both of us during 
the time I had my Angelotia at my breast. 

"My child advanced so fast in under- 
standing that I knew that a mastersoul was 
in her body because every word and deed 
was that of masterly wisdom. 

' ' One morning early while I was in com- 
munion with the Infinite I became over- 
shadowed by a wonderful power, as I held 
the flowers in my hands which dear Lotus 
gave me (when he told me that they should 
be the means by which we should communi- 
cate one with the other), as I looked at 
them I heard and recognized my dear hus- 
band's voice, saying: 

" ' Angela, my darling, I have been with 
and helped thee in all thy difficulties, al- 
though thou hast not seen me bodily. I was 
called to go back to the plane from whence 
I came to become the father to our darling 
beloved Angelotia. I could not be with thee 



Angela's Dream Realized. 127 

in flesh as then thou would not have learned 
thy lesson, nor made good the mistakes 
thou made in thy last body. We are both 
souls who belong on the planet Venus, and 
both of us had to come to the earth-plane 
for the purpose of giving body to a master 
whose soul had chosen to come in flesh in 
order to teach and help the earth children. 
Thou hast learned thy lesson well, and the 
sorrows and hardships which thou hast ex- 
perienced since we parted will now be 
transmitted into joy and glory. 

" 'I am not aware how I left the earth- 
body, but it was done very suddenly, and I 
told thee before our parting that the flow- 
ers I gave thee should be the medium by 
which my power should be with, and help 
thee in all difficulties, and I was with thee 
in the grotto when our child was born, but 
I was not there alone, as a Host were with 
me, and this made thy labors more easy. 
Our child had to be born in seclusion in 
order to save it from the confusions of 
mixed surroundings, and this helped thee 
as the mother. Darling, it was I who led 



1 28 Angela's Dream Realized. 

thee to the grove where we were sitting 
among sweet wild flowers when we joined 
hands in the sacred bonds which made us 
man and wife; and it was I who helped 
thee to build tae grotto and led thee to the 
spot where it was chosen to stand. ' 

" These words in communion while I 
looked my sweet flowers in the face 
solved the silence which my dear and de- 
voted Lotus had maintained, and I could 
see that it was for my best that I had been 
left to myself to bring out my own power. 

' ' The flowers which were given to me had 
given me wonderful comfort and the hum- 
ble dandelion had given me and my child 
much strength. I remembered how I used 
to ignore this flower among flowers in my 
past body, before the one I have just laid 
off, as at all functions of importance my 
people cared for no other flower but the 
large crimson rose. I have seen that the 
more tender and humble flowers like that of 
the soul gives the greatest comfort, and I 
have learned the lesson that the help given 
in meekness by the meek is the greatest be- 



Angela's Dream Realized. 129 

cause it lasts the longest, whereas the dis- 
play only lasts for the time being because 
it has a weaker foundation. I became very 
much attached to the dear dandelion and I 
was impressed by my forget-me-nots to 
make tea of them and give it to my baby 
and drink it myself, and I found that it had 
a wonderful effect upon our bodies as a 
purifier, and this taught me a lesson which 
I have just spoken of. Angelotia's wonder- 
ful wisdom made her grow very fast, both 
mentally and physically, and while she was 
yet small she gave evidence of her power 
by teaching wonderful things before she 
could speak plain, and people came to our 
grotto as soon as it became known that this 
wonderful child was there. She taught wis- 
dom such as many gray-haired men had 
never heard of before, and she answered 
questions whenever they were given, but 
she always said that she did not belong to 
earth but had come to perform a particular 
mission, and as soon as her work was done 
she would depart without suffering the 
death struggles which are common to the 



1 30 Angela's Dream Realized. 

lower earth mind. I became aware that I 
would not be blessed with her exalted com- 
pany very long, and prepared myself to 
give up my darling (the dearest I had on 
earth), willingly and without a murmur. 
While in minor years she began to wander 
about, feeling that she wanted to come in 
contact with different people in order to 
tell what great and wonderful things she 
knew, and sometimes she would remain 
away for several days without me knowing 
where she was, but she would always come 
back with some wonderful story of things 
which she had seen and heard in the air, 
and she told me that she did not belong on 
earth and had no home there. One day she 
came and kissed me very fondly, throwing 
her little arms around my neck, and said 
that she had been sent for by her own and 
must go home, and she told me that she 
would be with me and that we would meet 
in some far more beautiful place than earth, 
and then I would know her better than I did 
at the time. 

"I realized that the time had come for 



Angela's Dream Realized. 131 

me to give up my treasure, and as she dis- 
appeared from my view it seemed to me 
that the clouds lifted her into the air and 
closed around her as she faded from my 
view. 

i ' I felt lonely more than ever before, but I 
understood that this sacrifice belonged to my 
lesson and I felt by giving it willingly I pre- 
pared my way to greater glory than I had 
ever realized, and now, beloved, I am here 
among thee, free as I never was before." 

As she spoke the last words the heavens 
became almost fully illuminated and there 
was a murmur among those who had 
listened to her wonderful story, and there 
descended a host of souls, garbed in thin 
garments reflecting all kinds of the most 
beautiful and delicate tints, and all sur- 
rounded dear Angela. Two of the angels 
came, one on each side of her, and bowed 
deeply before her, after which they laid 
their arms about her. The lights were so 
strong that I could hardly look up, but I 
saw that the two souls illuminated in the 
various lights were Lotus and Angelotia, 



1 32 Angela's Dream Realized. 

who had come to greet and honor Angela, 
whose story had drawn them to her by its 
magnetism, and as the magnetism from the 
rain of flowers in which these two souls had 
made their appearance ascended into the 
air, it was seen that the wild forget-me-nots 
in their delicate hues predominated, and as 
sweet Angela recognized her dear Lotus she 
let her veil fall from her shoulders and un- 
derneath she was adorned with robes in the 
colors of the sweet bouquet given her in the 
grove by her darling husband whose soul 
now embraced her to give her part of the 
vibrations of his wisdom and triumphs. 

His robes have the colors of the setting 
sun and the light of sunrise surrounded 
him. Angelotia is robed in a thin garb, sil- 
vered by the moon in its full shining beauty, 
and upon her head she wears a diadem of 
three stars, and she descends and ascends 
in the light of her own magnetism, and 
both father and daughter are recognized as 
master-souls from the planet Venus, who 
came to earth for particular missions, and 



Angela's Dream Realized. 1 33 

as soon as they were performed they re- 
turned to their own. 

While they are in each other's embrace 
sweet music is heard in the heavens and 
singing is also heard in the sweetest pianis- 
simo, and as they release one another 
Lotus speaks to his sister soul Angela as 
follows: "Angela, my beloved bride, and 
Angelotia, my darling sister and child, 
most beloved and precious art thou to me. 
I have been absent from thee by the decree 
of Divine law, that thou might perform thy 
missions and learn thy lessons without in- 
terference, but while we have been parted 
we have been together, as there is no part- 
ing for companion souls, the unseen is seen, 
and now we art united to perpetuate the 
glory of God by teaching the law of wisdom 
and lead souls to light.' ' While Lotus is 
speaking here is seen a wonderful soul in 
the sky coming swiftly towards where the 
trio is standing, and it is arrayed in mag- 
nificent garments of silver illuminated. On 
his head he wears the star of freedom, and 
in his hand he holds the celestial veil of 



1 34 Angela's Dream Realized. 

the higher identification, and he descends 
in front of Lotus, Angela and Angel otia, 
bows on his knees and kisses the ground, 
after which he rises, saluting them in em- 
braces and kisses them fondly while pro- 
found silence pervades everywhere. 

Angela speaks to Lotus of Angelotia, say- 
ing: "Lotus, my beloved husband, here is 
the Angel which thou gave to my care, for 
which much blessing shall be given unto 
thee and me throughout all eternity,' ' and 
as she speaks she unfolds another veil, 
the color of her bouquet, which falls from 
her bosom into her hands, and while she 
looked into the faces of the sweet flowers 
she says: "Thou sweet, meek and ten- 
der flowers, thou life of me, thou soul of my 
soul, thou faithful communicators between 
me and my companion soul, thou have well 
earned thy name as thou speaketh to the 
soul which cannot forget,' ' and a bouquet 
of dandelions also falls from her bosom, 
and to those she says, l i and thou quickening 
life, unknown to the proud and haughty, 
ignored by the ignorant, thou giveth 



Angela's Dream Realized. 135 

strength to the weak and thou doeth more 
than this, as thou inspireth life with thy 
color, and thou teacheth the lessons that 
the meek in the meekness of nature shall re- 
ceive power and life of that which the 
haughty do not recognize, and thou tells us 
that we should recognize the Divinity in 
the small and obscured as well as in the 
great, most glorious dandelion, the symbol 
of the power of life, I thank thee for the 
strength which thou gave me, and my darl- 
ing, while I was in earth life risen shall 
thou be by evolution and weak souls shall 
learn lessons from thee." Kissing it she 
lets it fall on the ground and it became il- 
luminated with the most wonderful colors, 
one finer than the other, until it forms a 
great kingdom of itself, which will be ap- 
preciated in due time." 

She holds the bouquet still in her right 
hand and presses it to her heart, smiles and 
gives it to sweet Angelotia, who kisses it; 
so does Lotus, and finally the Master, who 
has just made his salute and kissed them, 
lays his celestial veil over them all, and also 



1 36 Angela's Dream Realized. 

the flowers, and then it becomes so light as 
though the sun was shining in its full 
strength, and from the light extends rays 
whose vibrations rises towards the sky like 
love's truest offering. The spectacle be- 
comes too magnificent to be described, and 
it is growing in grandeur, while the 
Master speaks to the trio, say- 
ing: "Thou my beloved thou was 
sent to earth from our home in Venus 
to make centers of power for its redemp- 
tion in time to come, thou have fulfilled thy 
missions well, as thou hast been led 
through the sorrows, without which none 
can see glory, I come to take thee to thy 
planes of reward where joy is given for sor- 
row, wisdom for folly, and perpetual hap- 
piness for obedience. Light and under- 
standing shall fall upon thee, as the dew 
falls upon the grass at sunrise." As 
the Master finishes song and music 
increased into fortissimo whose power 
fills the air, and meanwhile the faces 
of Angela, Lotus and Angelotia are 
radiant while their robes woven from 



Angela's Dream Realized. 137 

the morning dew cast their light over the 
whole surroundings and slowly the Master, 
as well as themselves, are lifted into the 
sky and like the triumphant musician they 
are escorted by music and song until they 
disappear from our view, and the singing 
continues and I can hear the words, saying, 
" glory to love, obedience to wisdom, all 
souls shall rise in its power, ' ' and as the as- 
sembly rises, who have been in breathless 
silence during the whole of the interesting 
narrative of Angela's experience, during 
which the different scenes have been of 
bewildering beauty, the echoes return to 
us from the songs in the air and we can 
hear the sweetest tones of "Gloria, Gloria 
in Excelsus." 

Angela was chosen to come to earth for 
the purpose of becoming a mother to give 
body for a master soul. She belonged on 
a higher plane than earth, but owing to the 
confusion upon the earthplane she could not 
find the right material for the body, which 
she was to give to this soul until she had 
taken three bodies in succession and by be- 



1 38 Angela's Dream Realized. 

ing influenced by the worldliness of her 
parents of her two previous bodies she had 
to atone for these mistakes in her third 
body while she was bearing her child as 
well as while she was rearing it. Lotus was, 
like herself, a great soul, and he was chosen 
to be the father, and as soon as he had ful- 
filled that mission he had to return to the 
planet Venus, where he belonged as a 
higher soul, and leave Angela to herself to 
work out her own Karma, and thus her 
dream was realized. 

Thus the law of Divine destiny acts on 
every plane in the Universe. 




cA tyisit to the Plane of Sleep. 

" Heaven and earth, water and wind, join 
in one long murmur of wonderment, angels 
higher and lower beings shall know and 
understand the great purpose of life, ' ' says 
a voice in the sky, and the whole assemb- 
ly unite in one harmonious amen. 

As soon as all are silent one of the host 
enveloped in light speaks while lifting his 
hand toward heaven, saying in a soft but 
clear voice, "Beloved, for the benefit of 
souls who have come to this conference to 
learn of the power in nature, we will make 
a visit to the 'plane of sleep' in order to 
learn the condition in which the souls are 
before their first awakening to higher con- 



140 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

Accompanied by sweet song, the assembly 
ascends into the air and the journey com- 
mences to the "plane of sleep." 

All ascend higher than this mountain, 
where the conference has taken place, but 
now it looks to me as though all were de- 
scending lower than previously, while my- 
self and companion are following as closely 
as possible, as all travel very fast, and be- 
fore I have time to wonder at the ease with 
which they are transported to their destina- 
tion, I see them descend upon a mountain, 
located in a desert, where the air is very 
depressing because of fog and darkness. 

Owing to the darkness I can see neither 
people nor abodes, nor hear a sound indi- 
cating that we are near them. 

The assembly have taken their places on 
this mountain a short distance from where 
I am sitting, and they bow their heads in 
meditation while extending their hands to- 
wards the sun, and the longer they remain 
in this posture the clearer becomes the at- 
mosphere around us and it is more easy to 
breathe. 



A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 141 

The absence of activity of the conscious 
life indicates that the souls are more in 
bondage here than on any other plane I 
have visited, and one can readily under- 
stand that sleep in a spiritual sense holds 
both souls and matter in its bosom, but it 
must not be understood to mean that here 
is inactivity of death or desolation, because 
as the atmosphere becomes clearer one can 
see activity and turmoil caused by uncon- 
sciousness in all directions on this plane. 

"Let thine eyes become opened that thou 
may see the struggles of the first awakening 
on the lower planes, and let it be known 
that it is so everywhere until the soul be- 
comes conscious of its higher destiny,' ' 
says the master, and while he speaks it looks 
as though the earth opens and from its in- 
nermost depths comes a great variety of be- 
ings which makes the activity and con- 
fusion greater than before because they are 
unconscious as to where they are as souls. 

On this plane animals take possession of 
human bodies and make them live and move 
about like themselves; they are moved in 



142 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

their unconsciousness by the animal in- 
stincts and live on their planes, as they 
know nothing about their destinies as 
souls. 

Mankind are living, eating and sleeping 
among the animals and it follows that they 
will absorb their magnetism and thus be- 
come one with them. It is evident that the 
beast has emotions as he often shows them 
by anger, love and loneliness like the hu- 
man, the similarity being so great, there are 
attractions between them and they are 
drawn to one another and this is the reason 
why the unf oldment of the human race is 
so very slow. 

These are truths which will be accepted 
later and then man will advance faster as 
he will understand how to protect himself. 

There are constant exchanges of magnet- 
ism between man and the beast and it is 
the law that it should be so, otherwise there 
would be no progress for our lower broth- 
ers. 

The animals play, dance and romp, love 
and pet their young and love to be petted 



A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 143 

like man, and mankind shows hatred, self- 
ishness and thirst for blood like the ani- 
mals; as said above the similarities are 
caused by the constant exchanges of mag- 
netism, and while the animals are elevated 
by the magnetism from the humans, the lat- 
ter are delayed in their unf oldment as long 
as they do not seek higher understanding 
but remain on the lower plane. 

The absorption of magnetic and electric 
forces will change the features, invigorate 
and quicken the action of the body, bring 
the latent possibilities to bear upon the 
lower life by their constant electrifications. 

Because of this relationship between man 
and animal there is confusion which makes 
it difficult for souls of higher unfoldment 
to find proper material for their bodies, and 
therefore they are compelled to hover in 
space for a long time before they can find 
suitable abodes to live in while they per- 
form their missions. 

When mankind rises higher spiritually 
these difficulties will be overcome and man 
will understand how to choose matter to 



144 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

suit himself without being taken into con- 
ditions beneath him. 

Matter must be at par with the soul in 
order to have harmony, but there can be 
no harmony as long as the soul has to be 
shrouded in the magnetism of beast life. 

It is the law that the lower life seeks the 
higher as all things struggle for advance- 
ment. Although the law makes its man- 
dates known to all life, the latter seeks un- 
consciously to unfold itself and is not com- 
pelled by any one to join in the strife with- 
out which it would remain in darkness. 

Some one asks if it is not murder to take 
life upon all planes, and if the punishment 
should not be meted out alike. To this 
the master answers, saying, ' ' that it is, but 
there are no other punishments on the 
physical or other planes than the conse- 
quences which under all circumstances will 
be strife and suffering as the deed has 
drawn it to the perpretrator, and that there 
is retribution on every plane until the de- 
sire to take life has been outgrown. 

Taking of life, says the Mas- 



A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 145 

ter, is an animal tendency, no mat- 
ter how educated man and women are 
by the letter, if they do not possess the edu- 
cation of the soul, the animal passions will 
dominate, and mankind will live a low and 
unconscious life side by side with their 
lower speechless brothers. 

The word civilization means not only a 
certain amount of literal training, but it 
means gentleness and humanitarianism, 
and it is the demonstration of peace and 
harmony with the expressions of the vir- 
tues resulting from higher understanding. 

Our responsibilities will be as our unf old- 
ment is, but there cannot be anything but 
suffering as long as mankind remains in 
darkness. 

Therefore, he who injures others injures 
himself, and it makes very little difference 
how severe or modified society makes the 
punishment for life-taking it will occur un- 
til humanity has become elevated to a high- 
er understanding of their positions as in- 
dividualities. 

There can be nothing on this plane but 



146 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

darkness and chaos, as long as the souls are 
confined in snch coarse bodies they will re- 
main in the dormant condition in which we 
see them. 

Thus we have seen that sorrows and 
strife are the punishments and conse- 
quences of mental slumber and no matter 
if the souls lay off their forms, they will 
remain on the plane where they took them, 
until they have fulfilled the missions for 
which they come here ; man is not rewarded 
for anything he does outside of what he 
does to himself and gives to himself, as 
he is his own savior; if he rises to higher 
understanding he will enjoy the happiness 
which it brings, that is the reward for his 
struggles, and if he remains in the lower 
and coarser he will suffer the pain it brings 
which will be his punishment. ' ' 

Some one asks as to the responsibility of 
suicides and their penalties. The answer is 
practically the same as above with the ex- 
ception that it is held that the latter unfor- 
tunates are further advanced than ordinary 
murderers but they are too weak to pro- 



A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 147 

tect themselves from confusion. They are 
on a higher plane and have become more 
refined, gentle and sensitive but they have 
not been able to cultivate courage to avoid 
the confusions around them; instead they 
become possessed by fear and are overcome 
by coarser surroundings, they are sensitive 
souls who shrink from the lower elements 
when they are confronted by them and thus 
they are overcome by confusion and driven 
out of their bodies by their own hands as 
well as by other means. 

The penalties are the same as above 
stated and they have to endure great hard- 
ships before they can reach the planes 
where they belong. 

All souls who are surrounded by low vi- 
brations are delayed in their progress and 
have to remain longer in the unconscious 
conditions than would be the case if they 
were strong mentally and able to regulate 
them. 

What does the plane of sleep mean? is 
asked. The Master answers: "It 
means the low degree of understanding 



148 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

which people and animals demonstrate 
upon the plane of which we have 
spoken.' ' As the Master concludes his 
explanations a host of sonls are hovering 
over this mountain, and coming closer they 
descend slowly and among them there is 
one soul whose garments are illuminated 
and the reflection of a variety of colors 
sends rays all around us; he holds in his 
hand a book looking as though it is en- 
wrapped in fire ; advancing he bows deeply 
and addresses the assembly as follows: 
"Most glorious assembly, my greetings 
with great joy, I rejoice to be allowed to 
give the experience of my life in my last 
two earthbodies as I know that it will help 
some soul in this assembly to hear it. 

The difficulty in taking suitable bodies 
for our different missions must be experi- 
enced to be understood, as the matter on the 
earthplane is very coarse as yet, it is hard 
for a soul with my calling to fulfill its mis- 
sion. I came to the earthplane for the pur- 
pose of giving the truth in writing, but in 
the body before my last one, I could not 



A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 149 

perform my mission as I became bewilder- 
ed in lower matter and had to live in it for 
a time and then leave it before my work 
was done. 

I hovered in space for a long time before 
I could find a body in which to finish my 
work, and in company with other souls I 
drifted to a village where a delicate young 
girl resided in whose body lived the soul 
of an artist, and as confusion had over- 
taken this soul and dragged the body into 
low vibration it was compelled to leave. My 
self and companions did what we could to 
help the soul to remain in its form until its 
work was finished, but we did not succeed 
and when I saw that it could not remain I 
resolved to inhabit the body myself until 
I could finish what remained undone of my 
work. 

I found this body well suited, as the 
nerves and brains were flexible and active 
and the finer emotions very much alive, and 
thus the body could serve my high pur- 
pose and become elevated also. 

In general the minds of the earth people 



150 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

are more dormant than upon other planes 
as they cannot accept nor understand 
things which they cannot see with their 
physical eyes. 

Many times when souls have left their 
bodies they would have been buried if there 
had not been other souls to take them, in 
time to keep the matter from dissolving ; this 
truth will be manifested as soon as man 
realizes that the body is but a covering for 
the soul, which it uses for the purpose of 
communicating with lower matter, and 
therefore many souls may use one body as 
one goes and the other comes, which I have 
experienced during my earth lives. 

Souls are attracted to some forms more 
than to others because they are in harmony 
with them and will hover over them until 
they can be used. It is the same among 
the animals and the part of the human race 
which lives on their plane; the instincts of 
the animals inhabit the human forms in 
many cases, as we have seen above. 

I was very much attracted to the last 
form I had and that is the reason why I 



A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 15.1 

could do the work so well through it. 

I had seen a multitude of unconscious 
souls hover over the body before I could 
take possession of it and they tried to 
possess it and hold it, but the ma- 
terial form had become refined by the oc- 
cupation of the artist's soul, and therefore 
it was more difficult for the lower instincts 
to keep it and I had less difficulty to in- 
habit it. Most of the physical bodies on the 
earthplane are surrounded by such souls; 
they cause the confusion which the race 
has to contend with and by which they are 
hindered from attaining rapid progress. 

I did not desire to hypnotize the physi- 
cal senses of this woman as it would be 
to take away her chance of individual un- 
derstanding and growth by the work I in- 
tended to make her perform. I lived in 
that body and it was mine until I finished 
my mission. 

No soul has a right to take possession of 
a body and keep its mental faculties dor- 
mant, as that is to hold the lower mind in 
darkness and confine it to the will of others, 



152 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

thus compelling it to do their work while it 
is prevented from its own advancement. 

Souls of higher attainments would not 
be guilty of taking advantage of the weak 
to such an extent, as they well know that 
they would be held responsible for that in 
the final adjustment of all things. 

Through this fine and subtle body I did 
not only finish my delayed work but also 
accomplished a good work for the liberation 
of souls whom my writings could not reach. 

My earthly experience has taught me that 
higher souls are hindered from doing the 
work needed in liberating souls confined in 
coarse matter on the lower planes, because 
it is very difficult to find matter there fine 
enough to operate with. 

I have also discovered that matter and 
mind in conjunction are on the upward 
journey, to the awakening of their higher 
knowledge and final destiny in due time. 

As long as the races are in ignorance of 
the law of the higher life they will remain 
in bondage, but the time is near when they 
will rise, be free, and know the mysteries of 



A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 153 

their past as well as future, and demon- 
strate their power within. 

I rejoice at being permitted to give this 
experience to this assembly, as here are 
souls who will benefit by it and I am thank- 
ful to thee, most glorious Master souls, for 
the privilege of being among thee with my 
love's greetings. Glory and much peace. 
I bid thee farewell." 

As the last words uttered by this grand 
soul died away in space, while he 
bowed his exit, the whole assembly 
joined in the most beautiful song and music, 
which was heard in the air and surrounded 
by a rainbow of light, he and his company 
disappears from our view. 

Silence and wonderful peace pervades 
while he has been speaking, and the whole 
mountain became illuminated. I have par- 
ticularly seen Angela, Lotus and Angelotia, 
surrounded by beauty, and indescribable 
peace which has made their faces shine with 
radiance. 

While the singing is going on, offerings 
of thanks for the lesson received is given 



154 A Visit to the Plane of Sleep 

to God, and the assembly rises and are 
lifted on the wings of freedom, into the 
great infinitude of space, and again I am 
alone, reflecting over the lesson which has 
been taught me by the wonderful soul who 
has spoken. 




The Midnight Hour 
of Sorrow 

All are returning to the mountain, where 
the conference previously has been held, 
and they realize more than ever the im- 
portance of the lesson received on the plane 
of sleep. 

The travel in the air is instantaneous and 
one cannot realize how it is done. 

Here is complete stillness, while all bow 
their heads in silent prayers and as it con- 
tinues a most remarkable phenomenon pre- 
sents itself in the sky. The heaven be- 
comes red like blood and very slowly there 
is forming a large rosebud whose dimen- 
sions are increasing and as it becomes 



1 56 The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 

larger the darkness becomes greater, and 
after its increase has come to a standstill 
a large golden statue rises slowly from the 
center of the bud which has expanded until 
it has become a very large rose of dark red 
color, and I see the reflections of cities, 
deserts, mountains and valleys surround 
the rose in a circle and the shining light 
from the gold against the dark red color 
makes the combinations most magnificent, 
presenting a spectacle of indescribable 
grandeur. 

The more I watch the slow rising of the 
statue the clearer I see its symboli- 
cal meaning, and I ask that I may be truly 
in the spirit in order to understand it fully. 

The whole heaven are lighted up by the 
brilliancy of the bright gold, with the red in 
the background; it is so bright that I can 
see every figure in the carving and construc- 
tion. 

I see people of various tribes and colors 
gather around the monument as it takes 
greater dimensions, and all bow before 
it imploring its grace and favors. 



The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 1 5 7 

All are watching the progress of this 
phenomenon with breathless silence, and 
they give spellbound attention to every- 
thing which takes place, as it develops. 

The monument stands upon a foundation 
of human skeletons and on its pedestal are 
four figures representing Ignorance, Van- 
ity, Selfishness and Time with his reaper. 

On the top of the monument is the figure 
of a woman worked in pure gold wearing a 
diadem of diamonds on her head; in her 
hand she holds a jeweled cross around 
which one can read in sparkling light the 
words ' ' Salvation by the grace of God. ' ' 

Smaller figures are represented kneeling, 
one of which is called Flattery, paying hom- 
age to Vanity, holding before her face a 
small golden mirror while complimenting 
her beauty. Vanity responds lovingly to 
the compliments while she places gold du- 
cats in the hand of her flatterer. 

Selfishness is represented as holding in 
one hand the lines attached to yokes laid 
about the necks of a herd of cattle and in 
the other she holds a sword symbolizing 



1 58 The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 

Capital driving and domineering over 
labor. 

Ignorance is most beautifully attired in 
jewels and costly robes, represented to be 
entertained by a clever jester who is fas- 
cinated by her beauty and wealth, and is 
endeavoring to come into possession of a 
part, by paying homage to her as a great 
being. 

Lastly, a great host of souls are gather- 
ing around the upper figure, asking favor 
and grace, and they turn to Time who holds 
his reaper in his hand asking him to give 
them some recompense, for the time they 
have lost, by being held in ignorance, en- 
during great sufferings therefrom, and he 
answers them that he can give no indulg- 
ence, as their time has been wasted and he 
makes one stroke with his reaper and I see 
them no more. The sculptor 's name is Evo- 
lution and the whole monument is marvel- 
ously well executed, although it is rough 
now, time will make it finer, as it is placed 
in his keeping. 

Upon this monument Suns, Moons and 

10 



The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 1 59 

Stars with everything upon them are repre- 
sented in motion, giving power to all things 
by which they become more refined. 

An explanation is asked, and the master, 
who has been the leader of the conference, 
rises and speaks as follows : ' t This monu- 
ment symbolizes the mental and physical 
condition of the human race, as well as the 
conditions of the church, representing the 
will of God. The woman standing upon 
the top of the structure is the symbol of 
its selfishness and weaknes ; its place means 
religion defending the oppressors who are 
making life harder for mankind to bear ; her 
teachings demand absolute obedience; but 
they do not come to the rescue of those who 
obey them when they are in need. The 
whole statue demonstrates church and state 
acting hand in hand, and also that wealth 
is of the greatest value to her. 

The small figures symbolize the folly of 
the race and its final penalty, when time 
with his reaper shall gather his harvest 
without mercy. 

Ignorance always places its highest value 



1 60 The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 

on wealth and magnificence, while the pow- 
er of mind is inactive and the understand- 
ing of the law of life is absent. 

The darkness which has been increasing, 
is the symbol of the hours of sorrow, when 
retribution shall be meted out to the violat- 
ors of the law of principles, and the strug- 
gle which we have seen around the monu- 
ment, is to come to the race of the earth 
as they have been worshiping gold and laid 
it as their foundation for eternal happi- 
ness, instead of unfolding the power of 
higher life. 

The hosts of souls which we have seen 
asking indulgence of time are those who 
have lived for their own physical comforts 
and laid burdens upon the shoulders of the 
poor and forsaken, and unto them are given 
what they have given to others; they will 
remain in their darkness until they have 
paid the penalties for their folly. 

This phenomenon is the symbol of the 
finish of the old dispensation when selfish- 
ness must receive the retributions for what 
she has sown. It is the representation of the 



The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 1 6 1 

midnight hour of sorrow, because when 
mankind worships gold as its God there can 
be but tribulation in the end. 

The laws of evolution work in hand with 
time as has been demonstrated; that is the 
reason why we find suns, moons and stars 
act in conjunction with everything upon 
them, and that is also the cause of "the 
great turmoils in the earth which will be 
shaken in the arms of the universe like the 
wheat in the sieve until her foundations 
shall tremble and man and beast will 
mourn. ' ' 

"While all are watching the increase of 
darkness in the heaven a terrible struggle 
takes place, masses of souls are pressing 
forward demanding their rights, holding 
their hands outstretched to those who pos- 
sess gold and power, and, while their de- 
mands are going on the earth opens, and, 
from the openings belch forth fire ; cannons 
are sounding their frightful reports, blood 
is shed in streams, groans, sorrow and 
agony are increasing also, the darkness of 
night is becoming deeper and deeper, the 



1 62 The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 

stronger rises against the weaker, and all 
feeling of brotherly love has vanished; 
there is weapon against weapon, and the 
elements are adding to the frightful strug- 
gle ; the ocean roars in anger and the winds 
shriek woe, while the mountains stand as 
forgotten majesties of the deserts. 

Purity and Innocence are defeated prin- 
ciples, and refinement is taken advantage 
of and it appears as though God has hid- 
den his face and closed his ears to the ap- 
peals for help and mercy. 

"The sun has hidden its light and the 
moon its brilliancy, and the stars are like 
they were in grief. 

Is there no redemption? Is there not a 
time to come when humanity will take ad- 
vantage of their own power and inborn 
greatness ? 

Is the time not soon to come when prin- 
ciples shall reign supreme and selfishness 
loose its power? Will humanity not re- 
ceive recompense for their belief when they 
did not understand? Will not the earth, 
which is now pouring forth her anger, re- 



The Midnight Hour of Sorrow 1 63 

lent, and once more deal with her children 
like a loving mother !" 

These are questions which are asked 
while the children of earth are pleading for 
help, and are becoming awakened to the 
truth that law cannot be silenced. 




The 'Dawn of a New 

Dispensation and 

its Triumphs 

In the midst of the tempest while these 
questions are being asked hosts of illumi- 
nated souls known as the "Devas" are 
hovering around the center of the great 
struggle of past ages, who have endured 
the same sufferings as are seen here, and it 
is by their good work that they have ob- 
tained their high positions. 

" Columbia/ ' symbolizing freedom, rises 
in the mid-ocean holding a white banner in 
her hand, upon which is written ' ' Liberty, ' ' 
surrounded by stars worked in silver, and 
in the rear one can see islands reflected 



The Dawn of a New Dispensation 165 

upon the heaven as though they were com- 
ing into view surrounded by rays of the 
rising sun, while multitudes are seen build- 
ing abodes upon their hills. 

Hosts and Angels representing the high- 
er virtues join the goddess, who bows in 
grief at seeing the advantage which the 
mighty takes of the weaker upon her shores, 
and as she raises her head she holds her 
hands out to the downtrodden inviting them 
to come and enjoy the peace which follows 
after the struggle. 

As the morning star is beginning to give 
light on the horizon the activity is increas- 
ing, and trumpets are sounding as the first 
hour of the new dispensation makes its en- 
try. 

The midnight hour with its tempest is 
past and the stillness is over all things so 
that one cannot hear a sound nor see a leaf 
move while the old dispensation passed into 
oblivion. 

As the trumpets are heard the sun 
slowly rises and the Goddesses of 
night and Morning, robed in the bril- 



166 The Dawn of a New Dispensation 

liancy of the morning star are paving the 
way for the new day, while light is replac- 
ing darkness and joy the sorrow just ended 
and the message of freedom and great joy 
is read to all life. 

Victims of the dark ages rise in their 
power and these souls rejoice while be- 
holding the Light of the coming day, and 
grand singing and music are heard, in 
which they join, and it sounds to me as fol- 
lows: 

"Take thou our bodies and bear away 
Whatever thou canst call thy own, 
Thy image stamped upon the clay 
Give thee that, but that alone. 

"Take them; O, grave and let them lay 
Folded upon thy narrow shelves 
As garments by the soul laid by 
And precious only to themselves. 

"Take them; O, great eternity 
Such little lives are but a gust, 
That bends the branches of the tree 
And trails the blossoms in the dust." 

During the singing beings from the tern- 



The Dawn of a New Dispensation 167 

pies, fields, mountains and elsewhere, rep- 
resenting different gifts and their virtues, 
having with them books in which are regis- 
tered the progress of different souls upon 
different planes, hovering to and fro 
in the light of the morning sun, surrounded 
by stars whose rays make the scene one 
of bewildering beauty; a voice is heard 
among them saying, "as the possibilities of 
man are unlimited, so will the expressions 
be through him, the old will become new 
and the humanitarian principles be lived 
and there will be harmony and peace, be- 
cause all things will blend into one soul in 
the final." 

Stillness pervades everything while the 
master is speaking and heroes of the past 
ages are among the assembled and they un- 
derstand what the whole Vision means ; one 
of them I recognize to be the immortal Lin- 
neaus the "Child of Botany" enwrapped in 
the reflections of the beautiful "Linea" 
upon a white horse advancing towards Teg- 
ner, whose "Voices of peace" have given 
comfort to many sad hearts, while the 



168 The Dawn of a New Dispensation 

flower lias been forming itself into garlands 
encircling the poet in its plain beauty. 

There are others of which I have heard 
and read as a child, and their deeds make 
them immortal to us. "Dobeln with Jutas," 
the generous-hearted hero, accompanied by 
the simple-minded but courageous "Sven 
Duva" with his small capacity of learning 
but great love for his country, also Sweden- 
borg, the pioneer seer, Joan D'arc and a 
host of others who were the servants of 
past ages, and Oracles of truth in their day 
who will give inspiration to the minds in 
days to come. 

Musicians and singers of all times are 
also here holding in their arms be jeweled 
instruments of all kinds and over them all 
the Goddess of Inspiration lets her veil fall 
and they receive the power from the Celes- 
tial heavens until their music and song be- 
comes life to the Angels. 

From all four centers of the earth are 
seen slender figures traveling in light en- 
circled by thin Veils from which magnetism 
emanates to earth with which their light 



The Dawn of a New Dispensation 169 

blends, and a voice is saying, " Man's goal 
is to become so free that his power blends 
with all things and when he becomes con- 
scious of this his triumph will be com- 
plete/ ' 

In the new dispensation there will be 
freedom and love between the races and it 
will be understood that these virtues are the 
foundation upon which Godliness and true 
happiness rest. 

' ' Whosoever thirst may he come and take 
the water of life free as peace and good will 
will be to all men." 

The robes and flowing garments of the 
multitude move in graceful folds in 
the air as the wind plays through them, 
silence again pervades all things in the 
heaven and earth, and it seems as though 
the beings upon all planets are in medita- 
tion, oceans have ceased to roar and the 
fishes to swim for the time being, and the 
winds are silent while all kingdoms with 
their matter join and it seems as though all 
species of life has power to think and medi- 
tate upon the great meaning of the change 



1 70 The Dawn of a New Dispensation 

which has taken place. 

The lower man and also the beast will be 
subdued and live in peace with one another, 
and the principles of the living Christ in 
man will be demonstrated through him. 

Now souls and things heaven-bound and 
earth-bound seem to join with Angels and 
masters in the chorus of one perpetual 
"Hosanna." 

By the ringing of bells, song and music, 
prayers and devotion, the first day of the 
new dispensation makes its triumphant en- 
try, and the benediction is heard saying, 
" Honor to God, and obedience to Wisdom, 
Gloria, Gloria in Excelsus. ,, 

The assembly are all rising from the posi- 
tion which they have had during the dis- 
play on the heaven and ready to leave this 
mountain they bow in meditation while as- 
cending into the air and while my Angel 
companion is ready to follow them she first 
speaks to me, saying: "Beloved, I leave 
thee into the keeping of God, that thou 
mayest learn the lessons well which have 
been given thee during this journey. Be 



The Dawn of a New Dispensation 171 

faithful in thy work giving, to the race on 
the earthplane the benefit of the experience 
given thee as a soul and power of its free- 
dom, that they might unfold to understand 
that the power of the soul is not limited to 
the lower planes alone, and in due time 
thou wilt be with me again on a longer 
journey than this and learn more glorious 
lessons. Peace and much power be with 
thee until thou shalt see me again. Fare 
thee well. ' ' 

As she finished her sentence she followed 
the assembly and disappeared with* them 
while their robes furl and unfurl as the 
wind lifts them higher and higher in the 
air, and wondrous magnetism falls upon 
the mountain as each furling causes great 
activity on earth, so much so that a mur- 
mur can be heard as though all things real- 
ize that new power has been given to souls 
in lower conditions. 

It seems as though all kingdoms were 
bowing in meekness, giving thanks to God 
for such power. 



A Visit to the White 

Chrysanthemum 

and c/Lster 

Every Host I have seen and been in con- 
tact with during this journey, as well as 
all flowers gathered together, will make one 
final visit to the greatest flowers of all, the 
white Chrysanthemum and Aster. 

These flowers, I am told, belong to the 
reaping season, symbolizing all the greater 
virtues combined, the reaping season (a 
master tells me) is the summing up of all 
the energies of other seasons, and in unity 
they will be rewarded. 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 1 73 

In the calendars of the earth people the 
Autumn is the season of reward, which 
means wisdom, gained by the labors 
of all the previous efforts. The flow- 
ers, which I in company with many 
Hosts have visited, have given us various 
lessons: the Tulip, divine love; the Easter 
Lily, devotion, and the Cala Lily, modesty, 
and all the minor flowers which have been 
mentioned and visited during this journey 
have all their meaning as well as seasons, 
and each season is the symbol of the differ- 
ent degree of development of the soul. We 
have been taught that each soul is attracted 
to the flower whose growth and color is its 
affinity. 

The whole assembly is to make a visit 
in state to the flowers of reaping. 

Coming to us in the months of Autumn, it 
means the triumph of the efforts of the 
soul. It takes the first months of the Mid- 
Summer before these glorious flowers 
make their great entry, and it takes more 
bodies than there are seasons before the 
soul can make its full power demonstrated 



174 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

in and through flesh. 

We have arrived to the new dispensation 
and its triumphs, and we have seen the 
great struggles before we could see the new 
dawn, and now the great flowers which can 
give the grandest display are to give 
a festival, and as the soul understands 
what the physical senses can not under- 
stand, they are all making great prepara- 
tion for the most magnificent floral re- 
union that souls ever witnessed. 

Here is great activity and the lower souls 
who can follow are invited to do so, as they 
will learn a great lesson. 

Every flower which has been present at 
the different temples and assemblages must 
be there to greet the great Emperor and 
Empress of this specie. 

As all things must struggle through hard- 
ships before it can gain shape and beauty, 
the law is demanding obedience among the 
flowers as well as everything else in nature 
and as it is manifesting the results of the 
struggle in everything else so is it among 
the flowers which is noticed from the great 
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White Chrysanthemum and Aster 1 75 

difference in fragrance, shape and colors, 
thus it is seen that the Chrysanthemum and 
Aster are superior flowers from their size, 
color and wonderful fineness in foliage and 
texture. 

The night of sorrow is past and the dawn 
of a new dispensation is here, and all who 
have been struggling have been lead in 
glory to their rewards ; and the journey of 
reaping is now at hand, and it is a won- 
derful spectacle to see all the Hosts in the 
heavens gathered together, here and there 
during this journey, oh, the shining faces, 
the sparkling diadems, and the thin, gauzy 
looking robes in a thousand different deli- 
cate tints, who could imagine such beauty 
without seeing it? Some of the Hosts hover- 
ing here to take part in the journey to the 
palace of the white chrysanthemum have 
their scrolls on which to register the devel- 
opment and learning which they have re- 
ceived and they will be rewarded accord- 
ingly, some carry with them their Cornu- 
copias filled with the different flowers the 
symbols of the different degrees of unfold- 



176 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

ment, some carry staffs, the symbols of 
leadership and the lights of their own wis- 
dom leading them wherever they go. 

The Goddesses of Music, Song and In- 
spiration is greater illuminated than I ever 
have seen them before, and they are to lead 
the Hosts into the wonderland of expres- 
sion. 

The Hosts form in accordance to rank 
and wisdom, and all are accompanied 
by the souls who are attracted to the vir- 
tues which they demonstrate, The King and 
Queen of the Tulips, of the Easter lily, of 
the Calla lily and all the smaller flowers in 
the field, as well as in the more nourished 
position of flower degrees, all form them- 
selves in accordance with their great- 
ness and they attract souls to them 
from their symbolic meaning. The 
Lily of the Valley, the symbol of Innocence, 
and the wild rose, the symbol of delicacy 
and simplicity, the Golden Rod, gener- 
osity, etc., etc., and all the Lily families, 
form by themselves, and the souls who are 
attracted to them, all the Eose families and 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 1 77 

the souls attracted to them, all the Pansy 
families and the souls attracted to them, 
as well as all the different degrees of the 
dear f or-get-me-nots, and the souls attract- 
ed to them, each specie send forth the vi- 
brations of their colors and the heavens be- 
come illuminated in a variety of wondrous 
colorings, oh, such beauty, would that the 
human race could understand it, could be- 
hold it even with the small conception it 
has now it would serve a thousand times to 
refine their senses to greater conception of 
the symmetry and beauty of order in the 
Universe. 

As I sit here on this mountain where my 
sweet companion, the Goddess of Purity, 
left me, and behold in soul (because I am 
freed from the bondage of the earthbody), 
the most wonderful spectacle a soul can 
witness, and yet I know that living on the 
earthplane, as I do, it being yet very coarse, 
I can only see the smaller portion of all 
this beauty. 

Among the Hosts I see the Triumphant 
musician, and the soul who inhabited the 



1 78 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

body of his mother, here I see Lotus, Angela 
and Angelotia, surrounded with the beau- 
tiful tint of the rising sun, fringed with the 
silvery light of the setting moon, and 
the musician carries his violet-colored harp, 
while the trio carries the emblems of their 
missions, Lotus holds a staff, Angela a 
heart and Angelotia an illuminated star, 
whose brightness is seen far and wide in 
the heaven. 

The more I see this perfect order and 
great harmony the more I am taught the 
lesson that there must be order and ele- 
gance in order to have harmony. As the 
morning star beckons the rising sun, all the 
Hosts are commencing to move slowly and 
lifted higher and higher, I notice that the 
Goddesses of Inspiration, Wisdom, and 
knowledge lead the way, and the King and 
Queen of the Tulips, divine love, follow 
next in company with the Goddess of Music 
and Art ; next come the King and Queen of 
the Easter Lily, the symbol of devotion, in 
company with all the different Lily fam- 
ilies ; next come the King and Queen of the 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 179 

Pansies and Forget-Me-Nots, the symbols 
of tkoughtfulness and memory, in company 
with every specie of their families. 

The Goddesses of Time, and the four sea- 
sons of the year lead these Hosts, carrying 
their scrolls upon which to register the ex- 
periences of the souls as the time make its 
entry illuminated with the different colors 
of its changes for the higher understanding. 

Next come, in the greatest variety, all 
the flowers in the field, and the souls who 
are attracted to them by their symbolic 
meaning leads the way, and as this marvel- 
ous procession rises higher into the heaven 
there are music and song, such as can only 
be understood by an unfolded soul. The 
song I now hear sounds to be like this : 



All that which slumbers shall rise, and come nigh, 

It shall hear the voice of Angels as the Hosts passes 

by, 
Each Wondrous flower as part of the whole, 
With fragrance and beauty gives life to the soul. 



180 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

The high and the low is one in Divine, 
Thou art part of my life and I part of thine, 
We smile and we weep in our cradle of growth, 
We move and we sleep and God loves us both, 
Oh, soul, and thou flowers in glorified Hosts. 

As the Hosts move on the songs become 
clearer and here comes to me the vibrations 
from my companion, although I cannot see 
her, and as I feel them I am lifted into the 
air and I am sailing with the rest, but far 
behind as I am not as far advanced as to 
be in their company, and besides this, as a 
reporter I can see better what is taking 
place from behind them than right in their 
midst. 

I feel that we are sailing westward, the 
center of reaping, or expression; and the 
more we come in this direction the more we 
feel that here is great preparations for 
bearing, and the giving of reward. The 
palace of the chrysanthemums is found in 
many localities and it is resplendent only 
at the time when the reaping is at hand. 

It seems to me that our first visit will 
be on one of the Isles of Britania, here I 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 181 

see in the beyond a little isle surrounded by 
water and great mountains surround 
these premises with a fringe-like dec- 
oration lending majesty and grandeur to 
the otherwise plain looking bit of terri- 
tory. Now, I see that the Goddesses who 
leads the whole cortege advances beyond 
this place and I gather that they will visit 
it on our return. We are not traveling 
as fast as we were the first part of the 
journey, but sailing more slow I find that 
we are near the beautiful home of the 
Chrysanthemum and Aster, and I see that 
the procession is descending, indicating 
that we are at our destination. 

We have alighted near a beautiful grove 
surrounded by trees and mountains, and 
the peace and stillness make it appear to us 
like a spot dedicated to the Angels, and as 
I overlook the whole assembly I find that 
many have been added to the company since 
I saw them arrange the procession; some 
have bugles, others have all kinds of musi- 
cal instruments, different cornucopias 
staffs, etc., etc., but greatest is the God- 



182 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

desses of Inspiration and Divine Love hav- 
ing the veil of the celestial heavens around 
their heads and their slender forms are en- 
circled in the magnetism of devotion, which 
by their motion while sailing have made one 
graceful furl after the other giving power 
and light to all. 

We are directed to take our places upon 
mountains which look like they were spe- 
cially prepared for this visit, and as here 
is a concert by the birds, who have their 
homes in the trees surrounding this peace- 
ful neighborhood, T hear the twitters of the 
dear larks, and the melodies of mock- 
ing birds, nightingales, and the dear chip- 
pings of canaries, to and fro flies the 
hummingbird like a little mischief 
as though he wished to inspect the 
great concourse which has settled down 
here. One can see that the variety of colors, 
the sparklings of diadems, golden staffs, 
illuminated stars, and robes, etc., in every 
color of the rainbow, is something new to 
them as they are used to take their meals 
in the palace alone. 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 183 

The midsummer with its excessive 
warmth has past and the mild sunshine and 
peacefulness of September surrounds this 
spot and I see far and yet near a great sheet 
of land shaped like a big heart, and 
it rests on stone, the symbol of solidity and 
lastingness, and this is the palace of the 
chrysanthemum. On the great point of the 
heartshape is the Temple, where the Em- 
peror and Empress of the White Chrysan- 
themum and Aster worship and here are 
also apartments for their audiences given 
to their relatives, the colored flowers of 
their kind, and all the flowers in the floral 
kingdom. 

The palace is built in the style of one 
great white Chrysanthemum whose foliage 
falls gracefully over the tops of the build- 
ings and the hangings are like beautiful 
urns, surmounted from spires much higher 
than the roofings. The inner part of this 
structure is arranged in its own colors and 
shape, and there are special daises of honor, 
one which attracts my attention especially 
is for the Master, who led the conference 



184 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

of souls, and the rest are arranged in ac- 
cordance with the different ranks, and de- 
gree of spirituality and wisdom. Oh, such 
magnificence, such bewildering beauty, and 
yet only white, in the other corners of this 
heart are asters of different degrees accord- 
ing to colors they bear, here are all kinds 
of colors in the two corners of the heart, 
purple, pink, blue, red, etc. 

The white chrysanthemum is the high- 
est symbolization of the virtues gained by 
greater activity than that of the lower 
flowers. 

The Hosts enter the palace two by two, 
male and female, in accordance with rank 
and precedence, and they are seated on the 
daises prepared for them. The assembly 
is much larger than before, as all the souls 
who have witnessed the wonderful vision in 
the heavens many of whom have been 
martyred for their faith are present, 
and the hues of different flowers en- 
velops them and it can be readily seen how 
each attract its own. The flowers speak by 
the different shades and the souls speak by 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 185 

the radiance in their faces, and as all are 
seated the Master who presided at the con- 
ference of souls is invited to open the meet- 
ing here, where the chrysanthemum and 
aster are the magnificence of beauty un- 
personified. 

He rises in the light and glory of his 
own greatness and he addresses the great 
assembly as follows: "Most gloriously 
honored and dearly beloved : Wondrous is 
the law of life, and most grand in its de- 
crees, because it expresses in all things and 
makes one thing demonstrate its power 
stronger sometimes than the other, today 
we assemble in this magnificent floral palace 
where we shall behold the great royal 
couple of the white chrysanthemum, 
the symbol of the triumph by evolu- 
tion over the lower until it reaches the high- 
er expression of its true self. All the 
flowers with which we have been so graci- 
ously surrounded during our journey, who 
have given us inspiration by their sweetness 
and understanding by their different colors 
and fragrance, are the servants of this won- 



186 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

derful flower, she has reached her highest 
plane as a flower and is the symbol of soul- 
growth and perfection in beauty. She sym- 
bolizes the masterhood of power, beauty, 
virtue and innocence, and her magnificent 
foliage becomes dazzling to the eye 
and inspiring to the senses and by 
her beauty she speaks most elo- 
quently to us of the great reward in the 
unfoldment which is the result of constant 
activity and reimbodiment, meaning the 
casting off of the lower forms and the 
adornment of finer. ' ' While the Master is 
speaking Cupids directed by Divine love 
brings a magnificent urn filled with the 
power of Divine love to the center of the 
spacious hall where the assembly have con- 
vened, and it is placed in the Divine pres- 
ence of the Goddesses of Inspiration, Wis- 
dom and Devotion; while soft music 
is heard and the Hosts commence to 
sing in the most delicate pianissemo, dur- 
ing which inspiration lifts the celestial veil 
from her head and holding it in her hand 
she waves it to and fro and as she does so 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 187 

the magnetism of every flower and soul 
rises towards heaven and the gentle sun- 
shine mingled with the silver of the moon, 
and stars centralizes itself in the urn, and 
seemingly the power becomes a fluid known 
as "love's wine," and in the midst of this 
wonderful offering are the Empress and 
Emperor of the Chrysanthemums and As- 
ters, arrayed in their purest white, moving 
on their slender stems and known by their 
rich and delicate foliages, their royal robes 
are made of the tinted leaves of the autumn 
mingled with their own green leaves which 
makes their raiments dazzling to behold. 
They are surrounded by all their relatives 
among the chrysanthemum and aster fam- 
ilies of all colors and hues, and as they en- 
ter the great assemble hall every soul places 
their hands together and bows in devotional 
salute. The smaller asters act as pages and 
the smaller chrysanthemums as an assem- 
bly in waiting. Profound silence pervades 
while their majesties are seated and that 
silence continues. 
His white-garbed majesty rises to ad- 



188 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

dress his guests, and in doing so his sub- 
jects, the smaller flowers, are bowed at his 
feet in service, while a murmur of wonder- 
ment passes through the entire palace; as 
the magnetism which emanates from each 
flower in motion rises in mighty volumes of 
varicolored life towards heaven. 

As his majesty delivers his speech it 
can plainly be seen that the male of these 
flowers looks different from any other 
flower in the whole great variety, here are 
many white flowers, but none is as large, 
strong looking (and yet delicate) nor have 
any other such long stems (symbolic of 
power) as his white majesty, and therefore 
all eyes are centered on him and his queen. 
Oh, what a grace and elasticity of move- 
ment, his great long stem performs almost 
a full circle and yet his crown of foliage 
holds its entire strength and dignity. 

Bowing first to the different goddesses 
he himself and the Empress turn their faces 
to the King and Queen of the Tulips and 
Easter Lily, and next to the whole 
assembly, his welcome speech is as 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 189 

follows : ' ' Beloved souls, oh, thou my mas- 
ters, and all ye flowers my faithful sub- 
jects, I have invited thee to my palace in 
order to let thee see that I demonstrate the 
result of the power of evolution. My palace 
is as I and I am as my palace (turning to 
the King and Queen of the Tulips and 
Lilies). 

Thou, oh, majesties my most beloved, 
thou symbols of divine love and devotion, 
it is by thy power that I liveth and it is 
of its inspiration that I am representing the 
greatest flower in the kingdom both in size 
strength and beauty. My season is the Au- 
tumn, as that is the season of reaping, and 
it is so with the soul, because it is by activ- 
ity and changes through many periods that 
it is able to demonstrate its power and con- 
sciousness at one final season. 

When the weaker flowers lay down to 
sleep in earth to their next season than I 
am able by thy power, oh, King of the Tu- 
lips, to rise in my beauty, I can endure 
storms, as well as receive sunshine and dew, 
and by this power in the soil which thy life 



190 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

giveth to all things, on the field, 
and on the mountains, in the waters 
as well as in the heavens, and the 
soul of man is likewise risen hy that 
power. As man has come through the mid- 
night hour of sorrows, and reached the 
dawn of the new dispensation of joy so 
have I by the same power passed through 
all the different stages of transplantation 
and its hardships until I have become what 
thou see me be at this time. By my beauty 
and strength I demonstrate the power of 
Divine Love and Devotion, such as thou 
heard in the singing at the dawn of the 
new dispensation, proclaiming the strug- 
gle of night at an end and peace in its 
stead. 

By this same power my subjects, the 
smaller flowers, shall move onward from 
one plane of action to the other, and they 
shall become larger and more beautiful for 
each step of advancement. 

Beloved King, my cousin, thou directed 
that this power of Divine love which is 
thy life might be sent to the east and 

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White Chrysanthemum and Aster 191 

west, south and north, to all flowers 
and things, and thy beloved Queen, her 
gracious majesty of the Tulips, held life's 
wine in her golden goblet and scattered it 
all over the earth and the entire Universe, 
and thus it has come to us, and by it we 
will reach our destiny. It became part of 
the fishes, fowls, seed and of the waterdrop, 
and it is the cause of the wondrous effect 
which we see among us, and be thou most 
honored and welcome among us, and be our 
joy thy joy, and live thou in our palace and 
presence as our masters; who we wish to 
give honor, glory and our humble greet- 
ings throughout all eternity.' ' 

Bowing to the Goddesses and the royal 
couples of the Tulips, and Temple Lilies, 
he seats himself upon the throne of the 
White Aster, while the pages of smaller 
white Asters and Chrysanthemums are 
fanning his face with his own leaves, and 
the female chrysanthemum, his Empress, 
arises in the magnificence of her beauty, 
bowing very deeply (because from instinct 
she knows that meekness is greatness) to 



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every one in the whole assembly, oh, but 
she becomes a revelation of beauty as she 
stands in the sunlight of the autumn, 
more delicate both in warmth and light, 
than that of the mid-summer, it reflects 
more gentle and tender beauty than it would 
have done in that season. Her robes 
are an intermingling of the green leaves 
of her own and the golden, and wine 
colored leaves of the autumn, and 
here and there is placed white plumes 
of the great aster, and her crown 
consists of three wonderful chrysan- 
themums, one is of the most delicate hue of 
light lavender while the other two are snow 
white, there is a garland around her should- 
ders of smaller white asters and the leaves 
of the autumn colors are layed at the hem 
of her robes of state in the form of tri- 
angles, her words is like her form, round, 
full, generous and beautiful beyond descrip- 
tion, as she moves so does all the smaller 
flowers, and the gentle breezes of the wind 
plays through the palace, and each flower 
which I have seen during my travel is 



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present and they are moved by the wind, 
and in their motions they send their finest 
colors and fragrance towards heaven as 
love's offering for the power they receive. 
The Empress of the asters speaks as fol- 
lows while bowing upon her stem at the 
command of the gentle breeze: "Most 
exalted monarch, my beloved husband 
and father of Chrysanthemums, I give 
unto thee and our exalted visitors my 
humblest greeting, I give my devotion to 
all the Goddesses, Kings and Queens, my 
cousins, most beloved, and I bow in thank- 
fulness for the power and devotion be- 
stowed upon us as flowers. I recognize that 
we could not show our beauty, strength and 
endurance in this autumn season if it was 
not for the generosity of Divine love and 
Devotion, we could not rise in our per- 
sonification in the time of reaping without 
thy life being imparted in us, and we could 
not give the strength to our smaller rela- 
tions of the families of the autumn 
flower. If we did not have the life 
within us, we could not become the 



194 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

symbol of magnificence, power and deli- 
cacy if it was not given to us by thee, oh, 
most Divine life. We greet thee, rejoicing 
because we know that all smaller flowers 
and things shall reach their higher homes 
by thy generosity and all of us shall in com- 
mon sing the song of full freedom and glory 
because we shall recognize our part in the 
Universal life in due time. I ask of thee 
to look in my face and thou shall see the 
expression of God in my delicate foliages, 
notice the generosity of my form and thou 
shall see that God and I are one. 

Thou, oh, most glorious Host of all souls 
who have assembled in our palace, we are 
part of one the other and that is the reason 
why thou hast come here in triumph, I am 
the symbol of the gentler expression of the 
higher in the lower and thou art 
the expression of the power of wisdom 
gained by the same activity which is ex- 
pressed by this season. All of thee have 
come as a Host because I am the demon- 
stration of the reward. Thou could not 
visit this temple until thou had first 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 195 

visited the Temple of the Tulip and Lily, 
the symbolization of the Divine cause, 
after thou have seen and followed the 
smaller flowers thou came in the right 
time to visit us as the finish of 
the struggle. The dawn of higher expres- 
sion, is symbolized by the autumn (the sea- 
son of reaping) . My humble devotion I lay 
upon thy altar be thou blessed forever and 
ever." As she finishes she rocks on her 
long strong stem like her husband, the 
Emperor, and every other flower follow 
until the whole palace becomes one unity 
of action and the magnetism emanates from 
each motion of souls and flowers. The birds 
fly to and fro and the different colors 
of their feathers is in mingling like their 
songs as each sing and twitter as he moves 
upward. Harps and other instruments 
comes from the air woven from the violets, 
forget-me-nots, pansies and a great num- 
ber of other magnetisms, and the motions 
causes their golden strings to send forth 
the melodies of joy and gladness as all 
things are now on its upward journey to 



196 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

realization, of its grandeur and power, and 
as I watch the motion of the winds and 
flowers I see many souls of them whom 
gathered to see the great monument in the 
air, and they are like dazed hy the bril- 
liancy of the whole spectacle which in itself 
has a lesson to give mankind who shall read 
what is taken down on these pages. 

As by flashlight the whole scene is moved 
to other localities and we are traveling in 
the air and I see now the shape of the 
heart on the little island among the Brit- 
anias, and there are a wonderful mingling 
of the smaller asters and chrysanthemums 
and I see many of the colors which I have 
seen in the grand palace and I also see mul- 
titudes of souls surrounding the stone heart 
filled with the subjects of this grand couple, 
and their majesties themselves often make 
visits to this colony of their own, there is a 
soul in the body of a woman who is sent 
there to live among them and she does not 
understand that she is guided by the higher 
souls to learn to communicate with the con- 
scious life through her lovely asters. This 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 197 

little spot on the little island is chosen for 
communication between souls and the 
flowers and that is the reason why my sis- 
ter has been honored by being asked to re- 
main among them until it is time for her 
to take up another mission. "Oh, thou 
my sweet sister among the victorias, be thou 
in rejoicing that thou art worthy to live 
and move among such exalted messengers 
of " flora' ' and know that souls visit thy 
abode and the heart of stone carved out by 
the inspiration of genius, directed by the 
finer life in the flowers. Live thou in the 
sphere of Divine expression and let it lift 
thee into the same beauty and glory of 
demonstration as it has lifted the white 
aster, and thou shall give mankind the same 
lesson of God, in nature as they do. ' ' These 
words are spoken by the Goddess of In- 
spiration while she becomes lifted like the 
rest into the sky, and while she speaks she 
holds her celestial veil out to space and by 
the wind it makes one beautiful whirldance 
after the other while silvery emanations of 
the combined colored life is sent like the 



198 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

offerings of love and Devotion to God. 

Amid the songs and music of the birds 
in unity with all things the Hosts bow their 
farewell to the royal couple and all sail 
away, each to its own plane of development 
to become more and more radiant by the 
light of wisdom gained by experience and 
I find myself sailing also while I am filled 
by the wonder at what I have seen as the 
finish of this wonderful journey is near. 
In triumph this visit began and in triumph 
it has ended, and it has been too dazzling 
to be described in words Oh thou wonder- 
ful life would that man knew thee. 

The emanations of all life join the souls 
who in different Hosts in accordance with 
their degree of unf oldment are sailing back 
to another mountain where they will linger, 
while others join them and then in full 
blending with the symbolic colorings of 
every virtue expressed in life they form 
into one magnificent Tulip, which closes 
in the center to one large bud, cover- 
ing the largest part of the heaven, and 
quickly the Goddesses of the Morning, 



White Chrysanthemum and Aster 199 

Noon, Evening and Night form them- 
selves like an Easter Lily, who with the 
Calla lily, pansy and forget-me-not be- 
comes like a cluster which symbolizes as 
follows : Tulip in the center, the symbol of 
Divine love, Calla lily to the left generos- 
ity, Easter lily, devotion, at her right the 
pansy, thoughtfulness, beneath on both 
sides forget-me-not, memory, and all this 
becomes a monument of power dedicated to 
the virtues which they symbolize and the 
honor of the souls who have taught me this 
wonderful lesson while my soul has been 
traveling in their magnetism and life for 
ten days. This symbolic cluster shall adorn 
the cover of the book into which this report 
shall be printed. 

Oh, thou Divine Goddess of Purity, who 
has escorted me to all the places, and things 
with which I have been in contact during 
the journey, what can I say, unto thee and 
how can I express my gratitude for the les- 
sons which have been taught me, as I ask 
this question I find myself alone on the 
same mountain from whence I witnessed 



200 White Chrysanthemum and Aster 

the great sign in the heavens, I see the 
Angel who has followed me hover over my 
head and as I notice her she lets the above 
described cluster fall into my lap, saying: 
"As these flowers has taught thee, so may 
thou teach the same lessons to thy fellow 
man, live and remember it, and more light 
and peace shall be unto thee, fare thee 
well. ,, 

As she disappears the winds carry to me 
three magnificent white chrysanthemums, 
the symbols of the souls reaping in triumph, 
and while the pansy tells me to think over 
all carefully, and the forget-me-not to re- 
member. The chrysanthemum says : i l Sow 
in unselfish love and devotion among the 
weaker, and the soul shall reap in triumph 
and glory the reward of all labors. ' ' Thus I 
learn that by motion and constant action 
we shall reach the highest glory destined 
for man. 



difference between the 
Soul and Mind 



Dear Eeader:— 

My ten days' soul journey is at an end 
and in returning to my bodily confinement 
I feel none the worse for my experience. 

My foot is well but very stiff ; in my head 
I feel as though it did not belong to my 
body, and the feeling in the skin of my face 
is very limited from the absence of mental 
action, but aside from that I feel much 
stronger than before I left, although I have 
not eaten but what is stated in the introduc- 



202 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

tion very small quantity each day just 
enough to keep the body warm. 

I am free to confess that if it was not 
that I know my mission is not finished I 
would not be willing to take up the body 
again because the peace and freedom from 
care is in such contrast to the life in the 
body that no one can realize it except those 
who have experienced it. 

I have seen what are the rewards for 
faithfulness and the wonderful gifts which 
are developed while we are in the body, 
and that makes one willing to endure any- 
thing which belongs to one's mission, as 
souls are lifted out from their darkness by 
our help and therefore it is well worth 
while to struggle for the advancement of 
self and others. 

We will endeavor to explain the differ- 
ence between the soul and the lower mind. 
By the word soul we mean the individual- 
ized higher mind and consciousness and the 
lower mind is more like the instinct of the 
animals who think very limitedly on any- 
thing but that which concerns the body, such 



Difference Between the Soul and Mind 203 

as eating, drinking and sleeping, and man 
takes but little wider scope when he thinks 
of wealth and luxury, etc. The field for the 
action of the lower mind in man, is on the 
lower plane only, because it can not go 
beyond as it has not developed the power to 
extend its interest any farther as the 
higher activity is beyond its capacity. We 
often find people act mechanically with 
their minds upon other subjects than those 
with which they deal, and we often 
speak to those around us, and perform la- 
bor without remembering until we are told, 
and in this condition intensified I have been 
while away from my body, my soul has been 
on other planes while the fingers have taken 
down what the soul has given it. 

We see that there is a certain degree of 
mentality in the animals as they eat, and 
clean themselves, without thinking, and it 
is the same with man. It is this we call the 
lower mind and it becomes more personi- 
fied by training and will demonstrate high- 
er power of thought accordingly. As the 
soul reaches higher it does not concern 



204 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

itself with the things belonging to the body 
but carries to it greater power all the time 
which makes it more and more like the soul, 
and thus it will be able to live in the arms 
of death. The world calls the lower mind 
the consciousness and measures the power 
of the soul by its expression, and this is the 
reason why we are not willing to accept 
anything which we cannot see, hear nor 
smell, because these lower senses cannot 
realize anything beyond them. 

During the entire journey I have been ac- 
tive both in the soul and body at the same 
time even though they were far apart, but 
as said above I have been entirely conscious 
on the higher planes while very limitedly 
so in the lower. 

Here is the secret of our growth and 
knowledge of higher things, and it shows 
us that we cannot know spirit except 
through the spirit, nor can we know God 
and confine our mind to the lower things 
alone, because all life is known from its 
different expressions. 

Many things in this report will seem 



Difference Between the Soul and Mind 205 

strange to my readers and many will refuse 
to accept them as reality and it will be 
natural that they view it from their 
standpoint of understanding, as it 
cannot be understood by any other than 
those who have studied the power of the 
soul. But I wish to state that it is a soul's 
experience which has been reported to the 
body and therefore it must not be judged 
by the lower senses. It is clear to our minds 
how hard it must be to find proper language 
by which to make such unusual reading un- 
derstood by people of everyday experience 
alone, it is very difficult and almost im- 
possible, to find anybody who is in harmony 
with the unseen power sufficiently to in- 
terpret the details of the soul's life on 
higher planes into everyday language with- 
out detracting from its original value. 

There is great power and life underneath 
the vocabulary in this report, and therefore 
people who are on the plane where they can 
absorb it will be fed and enlightened spir- 
itually by it, but those who are not will 
have difficulty in accepting it as truth, and 



206 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

to those I will say, that the time will come 
when you will have such experiences as are 
reported on these pages, leave what you 
cannot understand today, as there is a 
i ' sweet bye and bye for you when you shall 
know as you are known.' ' 

Every thought and word carry with them 
the magnetism from the plane where they 
belong and therefore it can be readily seen 
what an amount of power there will be in 
this book by the descriptions given. 

As soon as we understand the possibili- 
ties of all souls we will know that we are 
active on more than one plane at the time 
and a report of the above nature will then 
be appreciated because it will be clear to 
our minds that we are not confined to the 
body on this plane but the soul leaves it 
and gains knowledge on other planes, using 
the body for expression only. 

The plainer the higher powers can be 
demonstrated the greater they become to us 
both in words and deeds, but in order for 
the lower man to understand the life of the 
higher he must rise to the plane of the 

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Difference Between the Soul and Mind 207 

higher activity, and therefore it is hard to 
find words by which to carry the message 
from the higher to the lower that it may 
be comprehended and lived, and the plainer 
great truths can be given to the masses 
the more powerful they become, it is indeed 
very difficult to make slumbering souls un- 
derstand the life of those who have not 
only past the period of the awakening but 
risen to the planes with the Masters. 

This little book will be very condensed in 
preparation, and every word will be preg- 
nant with the higher life and I am com- 
manded to ask my readers to read it two or 
three times as the more often you read it 
the more there will be in it and more power 
will be found the last time it is read than 
the first. 

The reason why this is so can readily be 
seen as soul has written to souls and it is 
not the result of long and hard thinking but 
of an obedient surrender on the part of the 
writer to the higher expression of the soul. 

While remaining in the rear as a physical 
personality I submit these lines to those 



208 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

whom they can help and thus acting in 
obedience to the masterhood, who under- 
stands the trials which souls have to en- 
dure, because they have gone through the 
same and that is the reason why they know 
so well what we need for our unf oldment. 

I have been consciously living this glori- 
ous life in the subconsciousness. I have 
been part of all the different transactions 
which have taken place among the great as- 
semblies, and it is experience with me and 
not a story, I have witnessed everything 
and much more than is reported in this book 
and when we are ready for more we will 
find it, and while my soul has lived this life 
in the higher the body has moved about in 
the lower as above stated, hypnotized or 
controlled by no one during that time. 

By the foregoing we have seen that we 
are prompted in our actions by two degrees 
of consciousness, the higher and the lower, 
and I hope that this explanation is made 
clear enough for all to understand the dif- 
ference between them, and only those who 
have studied Life and being, have the ex- 



Difference Between the Soul and Mind 209 

perience which is the best teacher in all 
things on all planes. 

We cannot receive the knowledge which 
we need in this study from books alone but 
we must have personal experience without 
which all information is too limited to rely 
upon, and we do not know who we are until 
we learn from our own selves, and as soon 
as we can see that we are founts of power 
we shall look from within and there will be 
more to know than we ever knew before. 

We have been taught to look to others 
for the kingdom of God, and that is the 
reason why we never found it, but as soon 
as we look within we will see it in all its 
power and grandeur. 

Nothing is impossible for him who has 
found this to be so, because he expects to 
see more and the more he expects from his 
own soul the more he will find. 

Freedom is the key to all mysteries and it 
is indeed to the capacity of man, be- 
cause he is eternal and such is his power, he 
is as pure as God and such is his dual being 
that gives of his power to all things be- 



210 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

neath him and the more he gives the more 
he receives. 

This is a truth which I never knew until 
I found that the soul had no confinement as 
a soul, but that it can take flight and live 
on different planes while it holds the body 
and keeps in communion with it, but as I 
have said before it must be experienced to 
be understood. 

As spoken of above, it has been by vibra- 
tions that my soul has been in communica- 
tion with its body during this journey and 
not by the help of any other soul, with the 
outer world I have had no communication 
as I have not known anything about it while 
my journey has lasted; my fingers moved 
upon the machine by the same vibrations as 
those which sent the messages, and I have 
lived among Angels and wonderful beings, 
free from all inconvenience and sorrow 
which we have here on earth, and I feel like 
a child who has never known of any sor- 
row. I remember myself conscious on both 
planes and I also remember how I spoke to 
my body which was far away from me and 



Difference Between the Soul and Mind 2 1 1 

my message to it was carried along an il- 
luminated fine wires, and I saw the body 
respond the moment my vibrations reached 
it. 

From the above it can be seen that none 
but my soul ruled the body for the time be- 
ing and that the duality have been sepa- 
rated during my absence and yet the form 
has served itself. 

It was by concentration that I left the 
body as seen in the introduction and the re- 
quests I made before leaving were granted 
after it was left to itself, this will demon- 
strate that we make our own lives as what 
we say, that will be either directly or indi- 
rectly, and it also shows that mind sets mat- 
ter in motion to promote its own activity 
and as the thought is, such will the matter 
be which it moves. 

I concentrated my mind to be among the 
flowers and I have been among them most 
of the time during the entire journey, and 
such beautiful flowers cannot be found 
around the body, and yet they have looked 
to me like the flowers which we have among 



212 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

us on this plane but far more delicate. 

The faces of the souls among whom I 
have lived have appeared to me much like 
our people here but finer, younger and more 
innocent. 

The robes are the only things which have 
been totally unlike anything I have seen 
upon this plane, as they appeared to be 
more like gauzy reflections of different col- 
ors from flowers, than anything I have 
seen. 

We have been on the mountains all the 
time during my absence from the body and 
I am unable to say where they are located, 
sometimes it has looked to me as though 
they were located on earth and sometimes 
not, because everywhere there has been such 
stillness and peace that it has been heaven 
to me everywhere. 

None of the music or singing I have 
heard has been earthy but it has been be- 
yond anything which can ever be produced 
on earth. 

The higher and lower heavens have given 
their echoes to every sound and it has 



Difference Between the Soul and Mind 213 

seemed to me as though every melody has 
come from the innermost of heaven. 

Every place we have visited has heen dif- 
ferent and its heauty in accordance with its 
fineness and degree of development. 

Every different move has been for the 
purpose of learning a new lesson, and I 
have not been alone among those who live 
in the form on earth but with a great num- 
ber of souls who have left their forms for 
the time being like myself. 

I have learned during this journey that 
it is a great number of souls who thus fill 
their missions by living alternately in and 
out of the different forms. 

And this is what the masters are anxious 
to teach the earth people, as it will be more 
easy to know the finer planes, and their 
progress will be greater and go faster than 
otherwise. 

Among all higher souls, services are con- 
sidered the highest honor which can be 
given and they are eager to serve as is 
demonstrated in the case of the young 
musician, when all bowed in reverence when 



214 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

the Goddess of Music handed him the gold- 
en harp and let her veil fall at his feet. 

Thus I have tried to explain the differ- 
ence between the higher and lower self, also 
the conditions under which I went out of 
my form as well as the conditions under 
which this book has been written, and I 
hope that there will be no misunderstanding 
resulting from the limited capability of lan- 
guage on the part of the writer to deal with 
a subject so vast as this is. 

I have been taken into this condition for 
the purpose of helping others and I have 
served willingly but I am thankful for the 
privilege of serving those who need me, and 
in conclusion, I pray that this message 
which comes to the lonely from their higher 
homes might bring good tidings as it can 
only do so when it is accepted. 

I am thankful for this experience, and I 
rejoice for the freedom as I have learned 
that none need be confined to the earthplane 
but that every soul will live in higher and 
finer homes beyond the physical and there- 
fore, sweet reader, I bring thee tidings of 



Difference Between the Soul and Mind 215 

great joy as in time to come thou shalt 
know God better than thou does in mor- 
tality and also know thyself better, and 
thus live in perpetual happiness and glory. 

I thank God that I am made free, so that 
the beliefs or disbeliefs or any kind of 
opinion of the world cannot affect me, I 
am thankful that my soul has tasted the 
sweetness of the unseen realities of a beau- 
tiful life, so that darkness and sorrows can 
not weaken my onwardness to higher un- 
derstanding, I am thankful that I have been 
worthy to be chosen to serve the downtrod- 
den and forsaken. 

With my soul thus filled with joy I cheer- 
fully deliver this message from the Masters 
to the whole world from its higher homes 
where there are not rich nor poor, high nor 
low, good nor evil, yours nor mine, but one 
soul, one brotherhood, one joy and freedom 
with one and the same entry in the final, 
into spheres of Purity and Innocence whose 
temples are illuminated by the Sun of right- 
eousness where all are arrayed in garments 
woven from the vibrative Mendings of truth 



216 Difference Between the Soul and Mind 

and spiriutality, not as gifts but earned by 
sorrows leading to a life in perpetual ec- 
stacy, where for all time we will have the 
experience of " peace and good will to all 
men" with its Gloria, Gloria in Excel sus." 




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